Mark Dawes

Mark Dawes, born in 1983, is an English international lawn and indoor bowler who has won the world indoor championship four times. He won the Men's National Junior title in 2005 and by 2014 had reached a career-high world indoor ranking of eighth. In 2018 he won the World Indoor Open Pairs with Jamie Chestney and then took the World Open Singles title, beating Robert Paxton in a final that went to a tie break. His indoor club, Blackpool Newton Hall, closed permanently in 2020, so he had to find a new club. He still won a third world indoor title in the open pairs at the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship, again with Chestney, and then won the singles for the second time, beating Greg Harlow 10-3 11-5, for a fourth title in total.