Ray Williams

Ray Williams (born around 1951) is a former Welsh international lawn bowls player. In the mid-1970s he belonged to the Bedwas Bowls Club and, working at the time as an assistant transport manager, won the Monmouthshire open championship, which led to his selection for Wales at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in South Africa. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton he partnered Jim Morgan in the men's pairs and the pair won the bronze medal. He represented Wales again in the fours at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. In 1983, after winning 24 caps for Wales, he received a suspended ban of 20 months for misconduct, specifically drunken behaviour, at the 1982 Games. He is a different person from the American ten-pin bowler Walter Ray Williams Jr.