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Tom Griffiths was a Welsh international lawn bowler who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, now called the Commonwealth Games. He was a member of the Abergavenny Bowling Club. In 1960 the Abergavenny four of Griffiths, Albert Evans, Lynn Probert and Claude Stephens won the national fours title at the Welsh Championships, and the same four went on to win the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1961. Griffiths then represented Wales at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, in the pairs and the fours (rinks) events, again with Evans, Probert and Stephens, where the Welsh team finished in fifth place.

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Tom Griffiths was a Welsh international lawn bowler who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games (now Commonwealth Games).
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    won the national fours title at the Welsh Championships. Subsequently, the four then won British Isles Bowls Championships in 1961.
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    Tom Griffiths was a Welsh international lawn bowler who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games (now Commonwealth Games).
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