George Adrain

George Adrain is a former Scottish international lawn bowler, born on 12 April 1953.

George Adrain
Personal information
Nationality Scotland
Born (1953-04-12) 12 April 1953
Medal record
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
1986 Edinburghpairs
1990 Aucklandfours
World Outdoor Championships
1984 Aberdeen pairs
1996 Adelaide triples

Personal life

George is from a famous bowling family, his father (Willie Adrain) and uncle also called (Willie) were both Scottish internationals. He started bowling aged 14 in early 1968 after being introduced to the sport by his father.[1]

Bowls career

George won the Scottish Triples in 1974 and British Triples in 1975.[2] His biggest achievement came in the 1984 World Outdoor Championships in Aberdeen but bizarrely it was representing the United States. Jim Candelet fell ill during the competition leaving Skippy Arculli without a partner so Adrain the Scottish reserve took his place and the pair went on to win the Gold Medal.[3]

He won two gold medals for Scotland however when he partnered Grant Knox to win the Pairs Gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and was part of the fours team at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. The team consisted of Denis Love, Ian Bruce and Willie Wood.[4] [5]

He was also part of the triples team that took Gold at the 1996 World Outdoor Championships. His clubs were the Dreghorn (Outdoors) and Irvine (Indoors).[6]

References
  1. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
  2. Warters, Bob (1984). Fifth World Bowls Championship Official Souvenir. Key Publishing Ltd.
  3. "Gordon Allan. "Bowls." Times [London, England] 18 July 1984". The Times Digital Archive.
  4. "profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  5. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  6. Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
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