Abdul Kitchell
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| Nationality |  Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Indian Recreation BC | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Abdul Raheem Kitchell (born 1916) is a Hong Kong international lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Kitchell was born in 1916 in Hong Kong after his family emigrated from Malaysia in the 1890s. He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966.[2] Six years later he won a bronze medal in the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[3]
In between he won a gold medal at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Kitchell was an oil company executive by trade.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Hong Kong Delegation for Olympic Games (1952-2008)" (PDF). Hong Kong Olympic.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ↑ Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
- ↑ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ↑ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ↑ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
Categories:
- 1916 births
- 20th-century Hong Kong sportsmen
- Hong Kong people of Malaysian descent
- Bowls players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Hong Kong
- Hong Kong male bowls players
- Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls