Charles Bradley (bowls)
Appearance
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Nationality | South Africa Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1919 South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | Bulawayo BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Charles Stewart Bradley (born 1919) is a South African-born former international lawn bowler who competed for Rhodesia.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Bradley won a bronze medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in the fours with Alex Pascoe, Basil Wells and Ronnie Turner. Four years later he won a second bronze in the pairs competition at the 1962 Commonwealth Games with Bill Jackson.[2][3]
Personal life
[edit]His son Alan Bradley was also Rhodesian international bowler.[4] He was a farmer by trade.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bill Jackson profile". Rhodesian Sport Profiles.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ Bell, Harry E (1976). 3rd World Bowls Championship, South Africa 1976. J.G.Ince & Son Ltd.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
Categories:
- 1919 births
- South African emigrants to Rhodesia
- Zimbabwean male bowls players
- Bowls players at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Southern Rhodesia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Bowls biography stubs
- Zimbabwean sportspeople stubs