Robert Sprot
{{Short description|Scottish lawn bowls player}}
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| birth_date = 11 December 1873
| birth_place = Cambusnethan, Wishaw
| death_date = 15 October 1947 (aged 73){{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002750/19471017/106/0006|title= Bob Sprot |date=17 October 1947 |newspaper=Wishaw Press |access-date=17 April 2021|page=6 |via=The British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
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{{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}}
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Robert Sprot (1873-1947) was a Scottish international lawn bowls player who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games.{{cite book|last=Newby|first=Donald|title=Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88|year=1987|publisher=Telegraph Publications|isbn=0-86367-220-5}}
- {{cite web|url=https://bowlstawa.nz/titles/players/titles/2474|title=Profile|publisher=Bowls Tawa}}
Bowls career
At the 1934 British Empire Games he won the gold medal in the singles event.{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48808|title=Athletes and Results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}
He was capped 33 times and was the Scottish singles champion in 1910, 1920 and 1929 becoming the first player to win the title on three occasions. His uncle George Sprot also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships in 1894 and 1896 (the former being the inaugural singles championship).{{cite book|last=Warters|first=Bob|title=Fifth World Bowls Championship Official Souvenir|year=1984|publisher=Key Publishing Ltd}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.bowlsscotland.com/previous-winners|title=Past Winners|publisher=Bowls Scotland|access-date=16 February 2019|archive-date=4 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404184426/https://www.bowlsscotland.com/previous-winners|url-status=dead}}
His three singles titles still constitute a record held equally with David Dall, Joseph Black and Darren Burnett.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19100808/176/0004|title= Bowling Scottish Championships |date=8 August 1910 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=17 April 2021|page=4 |via=The British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19200809/043/0004|title= Scottish Bowling Championships |date=9 August 1920 |newspaper=Dundee Courier |access-date=17 April 2021|page=4 |via=The British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19290807/150/0009|title= Round the Bowling Greens |date=7 August 1929 |newspaper=Dundee Evening Telegraph |access-date=17 April 2021|page=9 |via=The British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}