Jim Candelet
{{short description|American lawn bowler}}
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{{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }}
{{MedalSilver | 1972 Worthing | pairs }}
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James Candelet (January 13, 1918 – January 1986)[https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10002-4757483/james-candelet-in-us-social-security-death-index-ssdi James Candelet][https://www.familytreenow.com/search/people/results?first=James&last=Candelet&rid=0s0&smck=dpzNbA7asRZ1d-cCQqLhxg James F Candelet] was a United States 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}}
Bowls career
Candelet won two medals at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing; a silver medal in the pairs with Bill Tewksbury and bronze medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy).{{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}}
Twelve years later he won a gold medal in the 1984 World Outdoor Championships in Aberdeen but fell ill during the competition and was unable to play in the final leaving Skippy Arculli without a partner. He was replaced by the Scottish reserve George Adrain.{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS352685810&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Gordon Allan. "Bowls." Times [London, England] 18 July 1984|work=The Times}}
He won seven United States Championships, four in the singles (1961, 1966, 1971 and 1980) and three in the pairs (1959, 1968 and 1983). He played in the first six World Outdoor Championships winning silver in the 1972 pairs.{{cite book|last=Warters|first=Bob|title=Fifth World Bowls Championship Official Souvenir|year=1984|publisher=Key Publishing Ltd}}
He took up bowls in 1932. He was president of American Lawn Bowls Association from 1970 to 1972 and his wife Elda was a keen bowls player. He bowled for St. Petersburg and Pawtucket and Providence.{{cite web|url=http://www.bowlsusa.us/uploads/7/5/9/0/75903269/hof_biographies.pdf|title=Hall of Fame|publisher=Bowls USA}}
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