Ernie Parkinson
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| Nationality | Northern Irish | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Belmont Bowling Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ernie Parkinson is a former Irish international lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]He won a bronze medal in the fours at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh with Billie Montgomery, Willie Watson and Roy McCune.[2][3]
Four years later he represented Northern Ireland in the pairs at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[4][5]
He plays for the Belmont Bowling Club which he joined from the Ormeau Bowls Club.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1988). The Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Irish bowlers will put in strong challenge". Aberdeen Evening Express. 3 July 1996. p. 44. Retrieved 8 April 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "History". Northern Ireland Bowling Association.
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