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Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||
Born | 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand | |||||||||||
Died | 2 March 2006 | |||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||
Club | Burnside | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Stewart Buttar (1954-2006) was a New Zealand international lawn bowler and national coach.
Bowls career
Buttar won a bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in the fours event in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada with Bruce McNish, Peter Belliss and Rowan Brassey.
He was a New Zealand National Bowls Championships champion, a feat matched by his son Nick Buttar. In all Buttar won three National titles; the singles in 1994 and the pairs in 1993 & 1994.
Coaching
Stewart Buttar later became the national coach of the New Zealand team but died in 2006 from cancer.
References
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- "Stewart Buttar". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "Bowls: Buttar follows in dad's footsteps". New Zealand Herald.
- "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- "NZ Bowls community mourns loss of former national coach - Stewart Buttar 2/3". TVN Community Victoria Bowls.
- New Zealand male bowls players
- 1954 births
- 2006 deaths
- Sportspeople from Dunedin
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century New Zealand people
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen