Sammy Allen

Samuel Barnett Allen, known as Sammy, was born in Belfast on 6 July 1938 and is a former lawn and indoor bowler from Northern Ireland. He has bowled since 1966 and skipped a combined Ireland side both indoors and outdoors. At the World Outdoor Bowls Championship he won the triples gold in Aberdeen in 1984 and the fours gold in Auckland in 1988, then took the pairs gold with Jeremy Henry in Adelaide in 1996. For Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games he won a fours bronze in 1982 and a fours silver in 1990. He won the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1980 and the 1979 Irish National singles, and played outdoors for Ballymena.