Bob McDonald (bowls)
{{Short description|New Zealand lawn bowls player}}
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| birth_name = Robert Lang McDonald
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| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
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{{MedalSport | Men's lawn bowls}}
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{{MedalCompetition|British Empire and Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalGold| 1962 Perth| Pairs}}
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{{MedalBronze| 1974 Christchurch| Pairs}}
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Robert Lang McDonald {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSM|size=85%}} (21 April 1933 – 22 February 2006) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed at four Commonwealth Games, winning gold, silver and bronze medals in the men's pairs.{{cite book|last=Hawkes/Lindley|first=Ken/Gerard|title=the Encyclopaedia of Bowls|year=1974|publisher=Robert Hale and Company|isbn=0-7091-3658-7}}
Bowls career
At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, he won the men's pairs gold medal partnering Robbie Robson. Eight years later he won the silver medal again with Robson in the pairs at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. In 1974 he claimed his last Commonwealth Games medal with a bronze in the men's pairs.[http://www.commonwealthgames.org.nz/Athletes/AthleteProfile.aspx?Print=&ContactID=27032&id=3780 Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website]{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/bowls.htm|title=COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS|publisher=GRB Athletics}} He also competed in the 1978 Commonwealth Games.{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48084|title=Athletes and Results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=11 April 2019|archive-date=11 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411202106/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48084|url-status=dead}}
In addition to international success McDonald won the 1962 pairs title with Frank Livingstone and the 1973 fours title at the Australian National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Onehunga Bowls Club.{{cite book|last=Bolsover|first=Godfrey|title=Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls|year=1959|publisher=Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn)}}
Honours and awards
McDonald was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service in the 2002 New Year Honours.{{cite web | url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2002 | title=New Year honours list 2002 |date=31 December 2001 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | access-date=3 August 2019}} He died in Auckland on 22 February 2006.{{cite news | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10369627 | title=Bowls: Popular bowler McDonald dies | date=23 February 2006 | work=New Zealand Herald | access-date=4 August 2016}}
In 2013, McDonald was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://www.bowlsnz.co.nz/Category?Action=View&Category_id=2178 |title=Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration |year=2013 |publisher=Bowls New Zealand |access-date=4 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822153835/http://www.bowlsnz.co.nz/Category?Action=View&Category_id=2178 |archive-date=22 August 2016 |df=dmy-all }}
References
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{{1962 New Zealand British Empire and Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1970 New Zealand British Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1974 New Zealand British Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1978 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
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Category:New Zealand male bowls players
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
Category:Bowls players at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Recipients of the Queen's Service Medal
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
Category:21st-century New Zealand people
Category:Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games