Peter Line

Peter Line was born on 13 October 1930 and died on 17 February 2025, aged 94, and was an English international lawn and indoor bowler. He won the fours gold medal at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing, and four years later a bronze in the fours and a silver in the team event. At the Commonwealth Games he won the pairs gold with Norman King in 1970 and a silver with John Evans in 1974. Bowling for the Banister Park Bowls Club in Southampton he won the national singles title in 1961 and 1964, and in 1999, for the Atherley Club, the national senior singles. He first played for England in 1955 and in 1984 married fellow England international Wendy Line.