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Nationality | New Zealander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Hawera Park BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Maurice Symes is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler.[1][2]
Bowls career
[edit]Commonwealth Games
[edit]He competed in the singles at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later he won a bronze medal for New Zealand when he was part of the pairs team at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. His pairs partner was Rowan Brassey.[3][4]
Asia Pacific Championships
[edit]He won three medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including a gold medal in the 1985 pairs at Tweed Heads, New South Wales.[5]
National
[edit]He won the 1985 pairs title with Geoff Hawken at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Hawera Park Bowls Club.[6] Remarkably 36 years later he won a second national title winning the fours with John Gray, Craig MacDonell and Steve Beel.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Maurice Symes NZ". Taylor Bowls.
- ^ "profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Men's fours draw and results" (PDF). Bowls New Zealand. Retrieved 8 April 2021.