Sammy Allen
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| Nationality | Northern Irish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 July 1938 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ballymena BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Samuel Barnett Allen (born 6 July 1938) is a former lawn and indoor bowler from Northern Ireland.
Bowls career
[edit]Allen has been bowling since 1966 and has skipped a combined Ireland both indoors and outdoors. He won a Fours bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games for Northern Ireland. Allen also won a gold medal for the Triples in the 1984 World Outdoor Championships in Aberdeen and a Fours gold at the 1988 World Outdoor Championships in Auckland.[1] Further success came when he won the 1996 World Outdoor Championships Pairs Gold in Adelaide with Jeremy Henry.
He won a silver with Northern Ireland at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[2]
Allen played outdoors for the Ballymena Seniors team and his other achievements include winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1980[3][4] and the 1979 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ↑ "A happy golden return for Wood". South Wales Daily Post. 2 February 1990. Retrieved 16 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
- ↑ "Seniors eye more Irish Cup success". Ballymena Times.
- ↑ "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
- ↑ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland
- 1938 births
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland
- Bowls World Champions
- Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Ballymena
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls