David Baldwin (bowls)
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| Born | 11 December 1921 | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 July 2012 (aged 90) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Paritutu Bowling Club | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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David Baldwin (11 December 1921 – 7 July 2012) was a lawn bowls international competitor for New Zealand.
Personal life[edit]
Born in Auckland, Baldwin was educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School and worked for 43 years at the New Plymouth City Council as a civil engineer. In early days he excelled in numerous sports including cricket, tennis, table tennis and soccer.[1][2]
Bowls career[edit]
At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games he won the men's fours gold medal partnering Kerry Clark, Gordon Jolly and John Somerville. At the following 1978 Commonwealth Games he won the silver medal again in the men's fours.[3]
He won three New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles when bowling for the Paritutu Bowling Club: the pairs in 1971 with John Murtagh, the fours in 1972 with Murtagh, Bruce John and Ken Tompkins, and the fours again in 1974 with Murtagh, Bruce Ballinger and Ken Murtagh. Baldwin holds 16 Taranaki titles in bowls.[4]
Baldwin remained a casual participant until just a few months before he died on 7 July 2012 in New Plymouth.
Awards[edit]
In 2013, Baldwin was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- New Zealand male bowls players
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
- Bowls players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- 2012 deaths
- 1921 births
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- 20th-century New Zealand people
- 21st-century New Zealand people
- Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games