Mark McMahon (bowls)
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Mark McMahon is a Scottish born indoor and lawn bowls player, who has represented England, Hong Kong and Australia at international level.[1]
Bowls[edit]
Outdoors[edit]
He has had a nomadic career being born in Scotland but representing Hong Kong until 1995 and then England and Australia at international level. He represented Hong Kong at three Commonwealth Games in 1986, 1990 and 1994 with his greatest achievement being a silver medal in the singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[2][3]
He won five medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships representing Hong Kong, they were four silver medals and one bronze medal from 1989 to 1993.[4] In 1988, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title.[5]
Indoors[edit]
He has competed at the World indoor Championships since 1989 and has reached a career best seeding of three and we won the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title in Great Yarmouth with bowls partner Les Gillett.[6][7]
Family[edit]
Both of his parents Bill McMahon and Rosemary McMahon were international bowlers.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Bowls: McMahon penalised". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "HK Classic winners Men Pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Bowls pair slam crowd's "ignorance"". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Marksmen find range". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- Living people
- English male bowls players
- Hong Kong male bowls players
- Scottish male bowls players
- Australian male bowls players
- Indoor Bowls World Champions
- 1970 births
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Hong Kong
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games