Rowan James Brassey MNZM (born 18 January 1956) is a former New Zealand international lawn and indoor bowls player.[1]
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| Nationality | New Zealander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 January 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Okahu Bay BC Avondale BC Cabramatta BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bowls career
editAn earth-moving contractor by trade, Brassey's first national success was the 1980 New Zealand Open Pairs.[2] He went on to win eight New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles in the pairs (1982) and the fours (1981, 1982, 1990, 1995, 2002, 2003 & 2012/13) when bowling for the Okahu Bay, Avondale and Cabramatta Bowls Clubs respectively.[3]
Brassey has competed at five World Bowls Championships, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 & 2000; winning gold in 1988 (pairs, with Peter Belliss), and in 2000 he won the gold medal with Andrew Curtain and Peter Belliss in the men's triples at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg.[4]
He has competed at six Commonwealth Games: 1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006.[5][6]
In 1990, Brassey was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[7] In the 2001 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to bowls.[8]
He won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including three gold medals.[9]
In 2013, Brassey was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[10]
References
edit- ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ^ Warters, Bob (1984). Fifth World Bowls Championship Official Souvenir. Key Publishing Ltd.
- ^ "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Rowan Brassey". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 76. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
- ^ "New Year honours list 2001". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 2000. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- 1998 New Zealand Commonwealth Games Team (Official book, 1998)
External links
edit- Rowan Brassey at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Rowan Brassey at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
