Don Sherman
{{short description|Australian lawn bowler}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use Australian English|date=April 2018}}
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| nationality = Australian
| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|10|6}}
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| death_place = Bendigo
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{{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }}
{{MedalGold | 1982 Brisbane | Men's fours }}
{{MedalCompetition | Asia Pacific Bowls Championships }}
{{MedalGold|1985 Tweed Heads|fours}}
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Don Sherman (6 October 1943 – 27 July 2017) was an Australian international lawn bowler,{{cite book|last=Newby|first=Donald|title=Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88|year=1987|publisher=Telegraph Publications|isbn=0-86367-220-5}} and a master builder by trade and bred cattle and horses.{{cite book|last=Warters|first=Bob|title=Fifth World Bowls Championship Official Souvenir|year=1984|publisher=Key Publishing Ltd}}
Biography
Sherman represented Australia at the 1982 Commonwealth Games{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004162/19821002/069/0004 |title=Men's Fours |work=Ireland's Saturday Night |date=2 October 1982 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=10 April 2025}} and won a gold medal in the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane.{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS286231369&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title="Wood completes a medal set." Times [London, England] 9 Oct. 1982|work=The Times}}
He won a gold medal at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the 1985 fours at Tweed Heads, New South Wales.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowls.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ASIA-PACIFIC-RECORD.pdf|title=Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners|website=World Bowls|access-date=31 May 2021}}
He died on 27 July 2017 after a battle with illness at the age of 82.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4819760/bendigo-sporting-great-passes-away/ |title=Bendigo sporting great passes away |last=Bourke |first=Adam |date=28 July 2017 |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |access-date=31 January 2020}}
References
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Category:Australian male bowls players
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Category:Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls
Category:Commonwealth Games bowls players for Australia
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