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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1972-11-02) 2 November 1972 (age 52) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Taren Point BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wayne William Turley OAM (born 2 November 1972) is an Australian international lawn and indoor bowler.
Bowls career
In 2006 he won a gold medal in the men's triples at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He won a silver medal four years later at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
In between he won a silver medal at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. He married fellow Australian bowls international Claire Duke in 2013.
He won three gold medals and one silver medal at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships.
Despite being Australian he won the 2005 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Taren Point Bowls Club.
References
- "Wayne Turley profile". Bowls tawa.
- "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "Meet the ultimate bowls team player". Bowls Australia.
- "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- Australian male bowls players
- Living people
- 1972 births
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games