Thomas Greechan
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| Nationality | British (Scottish / Jersey) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 June 1976 Glasgow, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | St Brelade BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Greechan (born 19 June 1976) is a Scottish born international lawn bowls player from Jersey. He became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2016.[1][2]
Bowls career
[edit | edit source]World Championships
[edit | edit source]Greechan has competed for Jersey at two World Bowls Championships in 2000 and 2012.
Commonwealth Games
[edit | edit source]He has represented Jersey at two Commonwealth Games; at the 2002 and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[3][4][5]
Other events
[edit | edit source]In addition to his British Isles Championship success he won the Jersey's first World Singles Champion of Champions in 2011, in Hong Kong. He beat Jonathan Ross of Scotland in a tie-break set 5–0, despite dropping the first set.[6]
Greechan also medalled at the 2007 Atlantic Bowls Championships, with silver in the men's fours event.[7][8] Jersey's bowls team, which finished second in the overall combined medal table at the Games, narrowly missed out on 2008 Channel Islands' Team of the Year to Jersey's cricketers.[9][10]
In April 2015, Greechan won the IIBC Championships Mixed Pairs world title with his 14-year-old daughter, Chloe.[11][12]
Family and awards
[edit | edit source]In 2012, Thomas Greechan was voted Channel Islands' Sports Personality of the Year and won Sports Person of the Year in Jersey.[13][14] He has also been selected as Jersey's men's outdoor Bowler of the Year twice, in 2005, and 2006.[15]
References
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