John Ottaway

John Ottaway is an English international lawn bowler, born on 2 June 1955. He took up the game in 1970 at the age of fifteen and has bowled both indoors and outdoors for the Wymondham Dell club in Norfolk. He represented England in the fours at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland and again in the fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. His best moment came at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, where he won the gold medal in the men's fours. At home he won five national championship titles, in 1989, 1990, 1996, 2000 and 2001, and took the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1990. In 2014 he became president of Norfolk bowls, which marks a long career in the county game as well as on the international stage.