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Don Woolnough

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Don Woolnough
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born(1920-06-13)13 June 1920
Died2003
Sport
ClubVictoria
Medal record
Representing Australia
World Outdoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 1976 Johannesburg fours
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Johannesburg pairs
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Johannesburg team

Donald Adrian Woolnough OAM (1920–2003) was an Australian international lawn bowler.[1]

Bowls career

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World Championships

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Woolnough won a silver medal in the fours with Leigh Bishop, Barry Salter and Keith Poole, a bronze medal in the pairs with Bob Middleton and a bronze medal in the team event (Leonard Cup) at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg.[2]

Coaching

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He coached the 1990 Commonwealth Games Australian bowls team.

Awards

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Woolnough was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1995 Australia Day Honours for "service to lawn bowls"[3] and the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.[4] He died in 2003 and was posthumously inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame in 2015.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Don Woolnough Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  2. ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
  3. ^ "Donald Adrian Woolnough". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Donald Woolnough, OAM". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Vics recognised at Bowls Australia awards". Bowls Victoria.