Ian Dickison
{{Short description|New Zealand lawn and indoor bowler}}
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{{MedalSport|Lawn bowls}}
{{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 1988 Auckland | triples }}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalGold| 1986 Edinburgh| singles}}
{{MedalCompetition | Asia Pacific Bowls Championships }}
{{MedalSilver|1989 Suva|singles}}
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Ian Antony Dickison {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (born 9 March 1952) is a New Zealand former lawn and indoor bowler.{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48781 |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/20190411100325/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48781 |url-status=dead }}
Bowls career
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.{{cite book |last=Newby |first=Donald |title=Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88 |year=1987 |publisher=Telegraph Publications |isbn=0-86367-220-5}}
Dickison then won the 1988 Outdoor World Championship triples gold medal with Morgan Moffat and Phil Skoglund.{{cite web |url=https://bowlstawa.nz/titles/players/titles/1041 |title=Ian Dickison |publisher=Bowls Tawa}}
He won two medals at the 1989 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in Suva, Fiji.{{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}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://bowlstawa.nz/titles/orgs/titles/2/w |title=New Zealand Championships |publisher=Bowls Tawa}}
Honours and awards
In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dickison was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls,{{London Gazette |issue=51367 |date=11 June 1988 |page=34 |supp=3}} and in 1990 he was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Alister |last2=Coddington |first2=Deborah |authorlink1=Alister Taylor |authorlink2=Deborah Coddington |title=Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand |year=1994 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |isbn=0-908578-34-2 |page=122}} In 2013, he 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 |website= |publisher=Bowls New Zealand |access-date=6 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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External links
- {{NZOC profile}}
- {{CGF profile}}
{{1982 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1986 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1990 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
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Category:New Zealand male bowls players
Category:New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
Category:Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
Category:Bowls World Champions
Category:Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games