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Richard Girvan

Personal information
Full name	Richard Anthony Girvan
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	(1973-12-30) 30 December 1973 (age 50) Auckland
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Taren Point BC Onehunga BC
Medal record Representing  New Zealand World Outdoor Championships 2008 Christchurch Men's fours Asia Pacific Bowls Championships 2005 Melbourne triples 2007 Christchurch fours 2011 Adelaide pairs 2011 Adelaide fours

Richard Anthony Girvan (born 30 December 1973) in Auckland is a New Zealand international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

In 2008 he won the gold medal in the fours at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch along with Gary Lawson, Russell Meyer and Andrew Todd.

Girvan represented New Zealand at both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

He won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, of which two have been gold medals.

He won the 2005, 2014/15 and 2016/17 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Taren Point and Onehunga Bowls Clubs respectively.

References

1. "Richard Girvan". Commonwealth Games Federation.
2. "Profile". Olympic New Zealand.
3. "Biography". Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
4. "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
5. "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.

External links

• Richard Girvan at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
• Richard Girvan at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
• Richard Girvan at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
• Richard Girvan at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)

• 1973 births
• Living people
• New Zealand male bowls players
• Bowls World Champions
• Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand
• Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
• 20th-century New Zealand people
• 21st-century New Zealand people
• Sportspeople from Auckland