David Bolt

David Bolt is an English male lawn and indoor bowler, born in 1973 in Sunderland and associated with Silksworth Bowls Club and South Shields indoor bowls club. He is an England international and was the national singles champion in 2011 and the national fours champion in 2014. In 2016 he won the singles title at the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic and the following year finished runner-up in the pairs with Taylor Monk. He was selected for the English team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, where he took a bronze medal in the fours alongside Jamie Chestney, Louis Ridout and Sam Tolchard. In 2019 he won triples bronze at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. By trade a postman, he opened a bowls shop in South Shields in 2016.