Wayne Willgress

Wayne Willgress, born in 1988 in Mulbarton, Norfolk, is an English lawn and indoor bowler. He came up through the England junior international ranks and won the national triples title in 2007, then finished as singles runner-up in the Men's National Championships in 2012. At the 2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship he beat the world number one, Greg Harlow, to reach the semi-finals, and in 2021 he reached the quarter-finals of the men's singles at the same event, where he and his opponent Perry Martin both had to withdraw after positive Coronavirus tests. In 2021 he won the national pairs title with John Tufts, and in 2023 he added a national title in the mixed pairs at the Bowls England National Finals, partnering his wife Rebecca, herself an England international who was formerly Rebecca Field. Away from the green he works as a self-employed painter and decorator.