Sport and Games Atlas

How The Game Is Played
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Athlete

John Morris

Precision Sports

John Morris is a former lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand. His career is remembered for one result at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, where he won the men's pairs gold medal, partnering Ted Pilkington. That gold placed the New Zealand pairing at the top of the Commonwealth bowls competition at the 1958 Games and gave Morris a place among the New Zealanders who have won Commonwealth Games titles in the sport. The article about him is short and records no other major results.

Facts
Medals or Titles Band
1 1
Gold Medals
1 1
Connections

Competed In

Source John Morris (bowls) (Wikipedia)

Plays

Lawn bowls, Sports
Source John Morris (bowls) (Wikipedia)
Mountaineering, Sports
Source John Morris (bowls) (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Nationality

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Source John Morris (bowls) (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
John Morris is a former lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.
Sources
1. John Morris (bowls) (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, pairs gold
    he won the men's pairs gold medal partnering Ted Pilkington
  • Lead
    John Morris is a former lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.
  • Competed In: Commonwealth Games, Lead, 1958 Games
    At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff he won the men's pairs gold medal partnering Ted Pilkington.
  • Plays: Mountaineering, Lead, first sentence
    was a British mountaineer, anthropologist and journalist
View the Source

Take a Related Quiz

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.