Kelvin Lightfoot

Kelvin Thomas Lightfoot, known as Kelly, was a South African international lawn bowler born in 1925; the year of his death is not recorded in the source consulted. He first came to prominence by winning a triples bronze medal at the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. In 1976 at the World Outdoor Championships in Johannesburg he won the triples, fours and team gold medals, winning 14 of 15 matches in both the triples and the fours as South Africa swept every event. The sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era denied him further chances. At the South African National Championships he won the 1959 pairs, the 1962 singles and fours and the 1969 singles, and he was the first winner of the national masters. By trade he was a clerk in the South African Railway Offices in Pietermaritzburg.