Alex Lightbody
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| Full name | Alexander Lightbody | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1966 [1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1982 - Present | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn & Indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Outdoors - Castle BC, Bangor BC, Pickie BC Indoors - Belfast IBC | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alex Lightbody (born 1966) is an international lawn bowler, who has represented Ireland (combined) and Northern Ireland at international level.
Bowls career
[edit]Lightbody won the Irish National Bowls Championships singles in 1992.[2] Trailing in the final against Gary McCloy 14–9, he came back to secure a 21–15 victory. In doing so he became the first Bangor bowler since Billy Tate to win the title.[3]
The 1992 Irish title qualified him for the 1993 British Isles Bowls Championships and he subsequently won the singles held in Worthing [4] becoming the first Irish winner since David Corkill in 1980.[5]
Other titles
[edit]European ranking
[edit]Lightbody has a Professional Bowls Association European ranking of 96 in 2021.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ ""Lightbody claims singles title." Times, 7 July 1993, p. 36". Times Digital Archives.
- ↑ "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowling Association.
- ↑ "Lightbody ends Bangor famine". Sunday Life. 6 September 1992. p. 63. Retrieved 31 August 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
- ↑ "'Lightbody claims singles title'". The Times. 7 July 1993. p. 36. Retrieved 21 April 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ↑ "Past Winners – Open Singles". NIBA. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ↑ "Past-Winners-Fours". NIBA. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- ↑ "european-ranking-list". Professional Bowls Association. Retrieved 5 September 2021.