Harry Atkinson

Harry Atkinson was a South African international lawn bowler who represented his country in the fours, the four-player team format of the sport. His career is recorded chiefly through one result: he won a gold medal in the rinks (fours) event at the 1950 British Empire Games, held in Auckland, New Zealand, as a member of a South African quartet made up of Herbert Currer, Alfred Blumberg and Norman Snowy Walker. The British Empire Games are the event now known as the Commonwealth Games, so his gold medal places him among the early champions of lawn bowls at that competition. The encyclopedia article about him is short and gives no birth or death dates, so his life outside that victory is not documented in the sources read for this entry.