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Peter Rheuben

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Peter Alan Rheuben, who lived from 1931 to 2014, was an Australian international lawn bowler. At the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Frankston, Victoria he won the pairs gold medal with his partner Alf Sandercock, and he also took a silver medal in the team event, the Leonard Trophy. He represented Australia at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, and at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, where he won a bronze medal in the pairs with Denis Dalton. By trade he was a company director, and he also played rugby union for Eastwood Rugby Club and for New South Wales against the British Lions in 1953. He was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame.

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1931 1
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    Peter Alan Rheuben (1931
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    He was a company director by trade
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    was an Australian international lawn bowler
  • Competed In: Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games
    Rheuben represented Australia at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Competed In: World Bowls Championships, World Championship
    Rheuben won the pairs gold medal at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Frankston, Victoria
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