Maurice Symes

Maurice Symes is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler. Lawn bowls is a precision sport in which players roll biased bowls towards a small target ball. According to his English Wikipedia article, Symes competed in the singles at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, and four years later won a bronze medal for New Zealand in the pairs at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, with Rowan Brassey as his partner. He won three medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, including a gold medal in the 1985 pairs at Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Bowling for the Hawera Park Bowls Club he won the 1985 New Zealand national pairs title with Geoff Hawken, and 36 years later he won a second national title in the fours.