John Snell

Sydney John Snell, known as John Snell, is an Australian former international lawn bowler born on 18 September 1934. He is recorded as a medallist at two of the sport's major events. At the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Frankston, Victoria, he won double silver, finishing second in the singles competition and also second as part of the Australian side in the team event contested for the Leonard Trophy. Two years earlier he had taken the silver medal in the singles at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, where lawn bowls was part of the programme. His results place him among the Australian bowlers who reached the podium at both the world and Commonwealth level in the late 1970s and early 1980s, though no gold medals are credited to him in the sources read for this entry.