Tony Allcock MBE

MBE

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(born 1955) is a British bowls

Bowls

Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls so that they stop close to a smaller "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven...

 player. Born in Leicestershire

Leicestershire

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, England

England

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, he is twice world outdoor singles champion (1992 and 1996), and world indoor singles champion (1986, 1987 and 2002). He was also world indoor pairs champion with David Bryant

David Bryant

David James Bryant CBE is a former three-time World singles bowls champion in 1966, 1980 and 1988 and also a three-time World indoors singles champion in 1979, 1980 and 1981. He also won the Commonwealth Games singles bowls championship on 4 occasions in 1962, 1970, 1974 and 1978...

 six times (1986–87 and 1989–92). He has won fourteen world titles in total. He also competed in the 1994 Commonwealth Games

1994 Commonwealth Games

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 in Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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, where he won the silver medal in the men's singles event.

Allcock was appointed the bowls performance coach for the England team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

2002 Commonwealth Games

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. He is the current Chief Executive of Bowls England

Bowls England

Bowls England governs the game of flat green outdoor bowls for men and women in England. It was formed on the 1st January 2008 following a merger of the English Bowling Association and the English Women’s Bowling Association....

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He has also written several books on bowls, and released a series of instructional videos on the subject.

Books

• Allcock, Tony (1987) Improve Your Bowls, HarperCollinsWillow, ISBN 978-0002182713
• Allcock, Tony & Rhys Jones, David (1988) Bowls Skills, Golden Books, ISBN 978-0600557784
• Allcock, Tony (1989) End to End: A Year in Bowls, Heinemann Kingswood, ISBN 978-0434981601
• Bryant, David; Allcock, Tony & Horton, Edward (1994) Bowl to Win, HarperCollinsWillow, ISBN 978-0002185233
• Allcock, Tony Winning Bowls, Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0091736774