Maurice Symes

Maurice Symes

Personal information
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	1945
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Hawera Park BC
Medal record Representing  New Zealand Commonwealth Games 1990 Auckland pairs Asia Pacific Bowls Championships 1985 Tweed Heads pairs 1987 Lae fours 1989 Suva triples

Maurice Symes is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler.^[1][2]

Bowls career

Commonwealth Games

He competed in the singles at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later he won a bronze medal for New Zealand when he was part of the pairs team at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. His pairs partner was Rowan Brassey.^[3][4]

Asia Pacific Championships

He won three medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including a gold medal in the 1985 pairs at Tweed Heads, New South Wales.^[5]

National

He won the 1985 pairs title with Geoff Hawken at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Hawera Park Bowls Club.^[6] Remarkably 36 years later he won a second national title winning the fours with John Gray, Craig MacDonell and Steve Beel.^[7]

References

1. "profile". Bowls tawa.
2. "Maurice Symes NZ". Taylor Bowls.
3. "profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
4. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
5. "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
6. "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
7. "Men's fours draw and results" (PDF). Bowls New Zealand. Retrieved 8 April 2021.