Robert Paxton, born on 11 June 1978, is an English international outdoor and indoor bowls player from Crediton in Devon, who plays indoors for the Exonia club and outdoors for Crediton Bowls Club. He won the 2011 Scottish International Open and two gold medals at the 2013 European Bowls Championships in Spain. In 2015 he took the World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title with Simon Skelton and the world mixed pairs title with Marion Purcell, and in December 2016 he won triples gold at the World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch with Andy Knapper and Jamie Walker. He won the world indoor open singles title in 2020 and again in 2026, and took a singles bronze for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. His world ranking has ranged from number 2 to number 12.
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born 11 June 1978
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He reached a career high ranking of world number 12
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Paxton went one better and won his second world indoor open singles title at the 2026 World Indoor Bowls Championship
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who won the gold medal at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch
Competed In: Commonwealth Games, Bowls career
He was also selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland where he won a bronze medal in the Singles.
Competed In: European Bowls Championships, Bowls career
In 2013, he won two gold medals at the European Bowls Championships in Spain.
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