Omar Dallah

Omar Kachong Dallah (12 August 1936 to 1997) was a Hong Kong international lawn and indoor bowler who also represented his city at field hockey. He played hockey at the 1962 Asian Games, at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and, as captain, at the 1966 Asian Games, and later coached the Hong Kong national team. As a bowler he skipped Hong Kong to gold in the men's fours at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championships in Melbourne, and narrowly missed a bronze at the 1984 World Bowls Championship in Aberdeen. He helped found the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic, worked in the Hong Kong Civil Service until 1983, then moved to Sydney, where he died in March 1997 aged 60.