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| Nationality | English | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 January 1975 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn & indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Rookery (outdoors) Mid Suffolk (indoors) | |||||||||||||||||
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Mark Royal (born 1975) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
Outdoors
Royal won the Men's Champion of Champions singles title in 2003, at the National Championships.[2][3] In 2021, he reached the final of the event again, only to lose out to Jamie Chestney 21–11.[4]
Indoors
Indoors he reached a career high world indoor ranking of 2 in 2009 and has been in the worlds top 16 since 2003.[1][5]
Major successes include winning the Welsh Open in 2008 and 2011.
Awards
He was awarded the 2009 Players Player of the Year and Performance of the Year by the World Bowls Tour.[6]
Personal life
By trade he is a Director of Jack and Bowl.[7] He has three children but is now divorced. Mark is a former employee of Potters Leisure Resort and colleague of its manager, Greg Harlow.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Profile". World Bowls Tour.
- ↑ "Past records". Bowls England.
- ↑ "Royal shows he is worthy champion". The Times.
- ↑ "Daily Round Up". Bowls England. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ↑ "Daily Round Up". Bowls England. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ↑ "Royal marks World Bowls awards double". Lowestoft Journal. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ↑ "JACK AND BOWL LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
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