Mark Bantock
{{Short description|English bowls player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
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| name = Mark Bantock
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| nationality = British (English)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|11|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
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| club = Gerrards Cross
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{{MedalSport | Men's Lawn bowls}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalSilver|2006 Melbourne|Men's pairs}}
{{MedalBronze| 2010 Delhi|Men's Triples}}
{{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 2008 Christchurch | Men's fours }}
{{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2009 Johannesburg|fours}}
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Mark Tony Bantock is a former international bowls player from England.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/1750791.stm|title=Bantock's bowl of life|date=9 January 2002|publisher=BBC Sport}}
Biography
Bantock finished runner-up in the national junior singles in 1990.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002467/19900919/060/0060 |title=Mark out of luck |work=Mersham Advertiser |date=19 September 1990 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=28 August 2023}}
Bantock was an England captain and won a silver medal in the Men's pairs at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the lawn bowls competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2009 he won the fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|title=2009 Atlantic Championships|publisher=World Bowls Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314062629/http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|access-date=21 May 2021|archive-date=14 March 2010}}{{cite news |url= https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503964873/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=284753c0|title=Bowls |date=18 May 2009 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=21 May 2021|page=61 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }}
He announced his retirement in 2012.{{cite web |url=http://nationwidebowler.co.uk/news/index.php/tag/mark-bantock/|title=England bowls captain calls it a day|publisher=Nationwide Bowler}}
References
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Category:English male bowls players
Category:Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Category:Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
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