Derek Oliver

Derek Oliver is a Scottish lawn bowls and indoor bowls player, born on 23 April 1984, who lives in Cockenzie and plays for the East Lothian Indoor Bowls Club and the Cockenzie and Port Seton Bowls Club. He won medals at the European Bowls Championships in 2011 and 2013 and took the Scottish National Bowls Championships in 2016. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast he won two gold medals, in the triples with Darren Burnett and Ronnie Duncan and in the fours with Alex Marshall, Duncan and Paul Foster. In 2019 he won fours gold and triples silver at the Atlantic Bowls Championships, and at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship he won silver medals in both the triples and the fours, losing the fours final to Australia 12 to 10.