Henry Wallace Browning

Henry Wallace Browning, known as Wal, is an Australian lawn bowls player born on 9 May 1928 in Casino, New South Wales. He holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest male outdoor bowls world champion of the International Bowls for the Disabled, granted in 2008 when he was 79 years and 169 days old. He left school at fourteen and worked for the New South Wales Department of Railways from 1946, retiring in 1986 as Information Officer at Sydney Central station. He is featured in the Bankstown Sporting Hall of Fame for lawn bowls. His results in International Bowls for the Disabled events include all his singles games at the 2006 Trans-Tasman Shield in New Zealand, gold in the singles and silver in the mixed triples at the 2007 world championship at Harbord, and several singles and pairs wins at the 2011 vision impaired world championship in Pretoria, after which he retired from that code of lawn bowls.