World Bowls Indoor Championships

This article is about the event organised by World Bowls & the IIBC. For the event organised by the World Bowls Tour, see World Indoor Bowls Championships.

World Bowls Indoor Championships

Tournament information
Sport	indoor bowls
Location	Various
Established	2019
Administrator	World Bowls and IIBC
Website	World Bowls

The World Bowls Indoor Championships is bowls event inaugurated in 2019 by the organisations known as World Bowls and the International Indoor Bowls Council (IIBC). It is contested annually between bowlers from national bowls organisations.^[1] The competition is the rival event to the World Bowls Tour's blue riband event called the World Indoor Bowls Championships.

In 2019, World Bowls came to an agreement with the IIBC (formerly the WIBC). The agreement was to merge their two international indoor championships, the World Cup Singles and the IIBC Championships. The new event would be called the World Bowls Indoor Championships. The event was due to start on 20 April 2020 but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was unable to be held until 2022.^[2][3]

The Championships feature men's and women's singles and mixed pairs.

Past winners

Year	Venue	Men's singles	Women's singles	Mixed pairs
2022	County of Bristol IBC, England	Michael Stepney	Julie Forrest	Stewart Anderson & Alison Merrien MBE
2023	Warilla B&RC, Australia	Aron Sherriff	Julie Forrest	Aron Sherriff & Kelsey Cottrell
2024	Guernsey Indoor Bowls Centre, Guernsey	Jason Greenslade	Nor Farah Ain Abdullah	Ray Pearse & Samantha Atkinson

References

1. "2023 WORLD BOWLS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS PREVIEW". Bowls Australia. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
2. "Preview a new World Championship" (PDF). Bristol Indoor Bowls. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
3. "World Bowls Indoor Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 12 April 2022.