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Full name | Kevin Robert Darling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | KD | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 14 February 1947 Dunedin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 21 March 2020 Dunedin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Retired Bowls player | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Balmacewen BC Caversham BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kevin Robert Darling is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler.
Profile
He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 14 February 1947.
Bowls career
He won a bronze medal in the pairs and a bronze medal in the fours at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne.
Ten years later he won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the fours with Peter Shaw, Phil Skoglund and Stewart McConnell.
He won the 1988 singles title and the 1973 & 1974 pairs titles at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Balmacewen & Caversham Bowls Clubs.
In 1990, Darling was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
References
- "Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016.
- Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ""Yesterday's Results from Auckland." Times, 3 Feb. 1990, p. 51". Times Digital Archives.
- "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 116. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.