Ian Dickison
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Born | 9 March 1952 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Lawn bowls |
| Club | Kaikorai Bowling Club |
Medal record | |
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Ian Antony Dickison MBE (born 9 March 1952) is a New Zealand former lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit | edit source]Dickison came to prominence after being selected ahead of Peter Belliss for the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. The decision by the New Zealand selectors proved to be right when Dickison secured the gold medal, defeating Ian Schuback of Australia in the final.[2]
Dickison then won the 1988 Outdoor World Championship triples gold medal with Morgan Moffat and Phil Skoglund.[3]
He won two medals at the 1989 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in Suva, Fiji.[4]
Other achievements include winning the singles title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships in 1985 and the pairs title in 1981 bowling for the Kaikorai Bowls Club.[5]
Honours and awards
[edit | edit source]In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dickison was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls,[6] and in 1990 he was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[7] In 2013, he was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[8]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Ian Dickison at the New Zealand Olympic CommitteeLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- New Zealand male bowls players
- New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls World Champions
- Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls