Alex Lightbody
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| Full name | Alexander Lightbody | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1966 [1] Newtownards, County Down | |||||||||||||||||
| 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]
- Northern Ireland Bowls Association (NIBA) singles title: 1992[6]
- Northern Ireland Bowls Association (NIBA) fours title: 1983[7]
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.
- ^ "'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.