Pete Skoglund

Thomas Theodorus Skoglund, known as Pete, was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who lived from 25 July 1905 to 2 October 1968. At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the bronze medal in the men's fours, playing alongside Arthur Engebretsen, Noel Jolly and Fred Russell. He competed in the same event at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver and finished sixth. He was the brother of politician and cabinet minister Philip Skoglund, whose son Phil Skoglund also became a champion lawn bowls player. His 1966 book, Mr Bowls, The Pete Skoglund Story, was published by A H and A W Reed in Wellington. He died in Auckland in 1968 and his ashes were buried at Purewa Cemetery.