Sam Tolchard is an English international lawn and indoor bowler, born on 27 May 1989. He has represented England at the Commonwealth Games on several occasions, winning bronze in the men's pairs in 2014, bronze in the fours in 2018, and both a pairs silver and a fours bronze in 2022, before taking the men's singles gold medal at the 2026 Games in Glasgow. His other international successes include the World Singles Champion of Champions title in Wellington in 2022 and the singles gold at the 2025 Bowls World Cup, and he has been ranked among the top ten players in the world. At home he has won nine Bowls England national championship titles, six of them in the singles, and bowls outdoors for Kings Bowls Club. He is the brother of fellow England bowler Sophie Tolchard and comes from a family with a long cricketing tradition.
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Sam Tolchard (born 27 May 1989) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.
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Sam Tolchard (born 27 May 1989) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.
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He has won nine National Championship titles, including six singles titles.
Competed In: Commonwealth Games, Profile
He competed for England in the men's pairs at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal.
Competed In: World Bowls Championships, Profile
In 2023, he was selected as part of the team to represent England at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.
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