Jim Baker is a former Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler. He won the 1984 World Indoor Bowls Championship, becoming the first and so far only open champion from Northern Ireland, after finishing runner-up in 1982. Playing for the combined Irish team he won gold in the triples at the 1984 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and in the fours at the 1988 championship, then a third world gold in the fours in 2004 with Jonathan Ross, Noel Graham and Neil Booth, plus a pairs silver with Graham. He won a Commonwealth Games silver for Northern Ireland in Auckland in 1990 and another medal in Manchester in 2002. He won the 1989 Irish National singles for Cliftonville Bowls Club.
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is a former Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.
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is a former Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.
Competed In: World Bowls Championships, Bowls career
Baker was part of the gold medal-winning triples for the combined Irish team in the 1984 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
Competed In: Commonwealth Games, Bowls career
He won a silver with Northern Ireland at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
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