Thursday 23rd March 2017

Day 4 Results

B1 Wayne Thomson  DEFEATED Israel  17:13

B1 Mixed Pairs Skinner / Thomson  lost to Israel 4:20

B2 Ralph Simpson  DEFEATED New Zealand 21:4

B2 Joy Forster  DEFEATED Scotland 7:0  WOF

B2 Mixed Pairs  Simpson / Forster  DEFEATED New Zealand/SA  (Friendly Match) 28:4

B3 Chris Backstrom  DEFEATED Scotland 21:12

B3 Marian Morrison DEFEATED New Zealand 21:20

B3 Mixed Pairs Backstrom / Morrison  lost to Israel 9:15

B4 Dennis Wormald  DEFEATED Scotland 21:4

B4 Lynne Seymour DEFEATED Scotland 21:7

B4 Mixed Pairs Seymour / Wormald  DEFEATED Israel  10:7

Chris Backstrom (B3 Aus), Mick Toovey,  after winning his first international match against Scotland William Caulfield (B3 Scot), Christine Morrow

Dennis Wormald (B4 Aus), Roz Myles, Peter Ramsay (B4 Scot) George Miller

Ann Muir, Sue Curran (B3 NZ), Marker, Marian Morrison (B3 Aus), Beatrice Kassulke

Jennifer Simpson, Ralph Simpson (B2Aus), Glen Hanneman (B2 NZ), Bernard Yeo

Dennis Wormald (B4 Aus), Marker, Peter Ramsay (B4 Scot)

Miriam Goldfarb, Itzhak Baranes (B1 Isr), Wayne Thomson (B1 Aus), Lynne Thomson

Tuesday 28th March 2017

The Championships have ended.

Australia has had a very successful campaign at the 2017 IBBA World Championships which concluded today.  Our talented team won 6 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze.

FINAL RESULTS

B1: Men's Singles   Gold: Australia         Silver: New Zealand      Bronze:  Hong Kong
B1: Ladies Singles  Gold: England          Silver: South Africa       Bronze:  Israel
B1: Mixed Pairs      Gold: South Africa   Silver: Israel                   Bronze:  Australia

B2:  Men's Singles   Gold:  South Africa   Silver:  Hong Kong   Bronze:  Scotland
B2:  Ladies Singles  Gold: Australia          Silver: Scotland         Bronze:  England
B2:  Mixed Pairs      Gold: Australia          Silver:  Israel             Bronze: England

B3:  Men's Singles    Gold: South Africa   Silver:  Canada          Bronze: Israel
B3:  Ladies Singles   Gold: Australia         Silver:  South Africa  Bronze: Hong Kong
B3:  Mixed Pairs       Gold: South Africa   Silver: New Zealand  Bronze: Canada

B4:  Men's Singles    Gold: Hong Kong     Silver:  Australia        Bronze: South Africa
B4:  Ladies Singles   Gold: Australia         Silver: South Africa   Bronze: Scotland
B4:  Mixed Pairs       Gold: Australia         Silver: South Africa   Bronze:  Hong Kong

Medal Tally

                                            Events 
                                            Entered               Gold        Silver       Bronze       Total
Australia                                  12                      6               1                1                8
Canada                                      4                                       1                1                2
England                                   12                      1                                 2                3
Hong Kong                                7                      1               1                3                5
Israel                                        12                                       2                2                4
Northern Island
New Zealand                              6                                       2                                  2
Scotland                                   11                                       1                2                3
South Africa                             12                      4               4                1                9
Wales



Overall
Gold:  South Africa
Silver: Australia
Bronze:  Israel

Our Gold Medal Trophies

B1 Men's Sinlges Gold Medal Wayne Thomson (NSW) Lynne Thomson

B1 Mixed Pairs Bronze Medal Wayne Thomson (NSW), Lynne Thomson, Jenny Skinner (Qld), Narelle Young

B2 Ladies Singles Gold Medal Joy Forster (Qld), Bruce Jones

B2 Mixed Pairs Gold Medal Bruce Jones, Joy Forster (Qld), Ralph Simpson (Vic), Jennifer Simpson

B3 Ladies Singles Gold Medal Marian Morrison (Qld), Beatrice Kassulke with outgoing IBBA President David Morris

B4 Ladies Singles Gold Medal Lynne Seymour (Qld), Bob Seymour

B4 Men's Singles Silver Medal Dennis Wormald (Qld), Roz Myes

B4 Mixed Pairs Gold Medal Bob Seymour, Lynne Seymour (Qld), Dennis Wormald (Qld), Roz Myles

Medal winners from Aspley BC: Gold Medalist (B3 Ladies Singles) Marian Morrison, and Bronze Medalist Jenny Skinner (B1 Mixed Pairs) with Directors Beatrice Kassulke and Narelle
 Young

Class of 2017

Team preparing for medal presentation

Chris Backstrom, Bob Seymour, Dennis Wormald 

Supporters gathering for the Medal Ceremony at WPCC

Roz, Bob and Lynne with Moira,
one of our tour organizers at the final Banquet.

Final banquet held at Kelvin Grove

Mike Connolly (Technical Officials) & Jenny Phillips (Convenor)

Sunday 26th March 2017

Rest day today for the players. All the team did a day tour to the top of Table Mountain followed by an afternoon at the V&A Waterfront.

Table Mountain from V&A Waterfront

V&A Waterfront

Birghtly coloured houses of Bo-Kaap community, Cape Town

Rock Dassie, Tabletop Mountain

Table Mountain cable car

Monday 27th March 2017

Dennis Wormald (B4 aus), Roz Myles in action against Wales

Monday 28th March 2017

GOLD, GOLD, GOLD AND GOLD

After a rest day yesterday, Australia has had a fantastic day on the green winning 4 gold medals, taking our tally to 5 gold in total.

B1 Singles  Wayne Thomson and Lynne Thomson  Gold
B2 Singles Joy Forster and Bruce Jones Gold
B2 Pairs Joy Forster, Bruce Jone and Ralph Simpson, Jennifer Simpson Gold
B3 Singles Marian Morrison and Beatrice Kassulke Gold
B4 Singles Lynne Seymour and Bob Seymour Gold
B4 Singles Dennis Wormald Silver

Joy Forster has successfully defended her crown winning the B2 Ladies Singles Championship for the 3rd consecutive time

Roz Myles, Toby Warren (Wales), Dennis Wormald (B4 Aus)

Paul Homer, Marian Morrison (B3 Aus), May Homer (B3 South Africa), Beatrice Kassulke after Aus winning B3 Singles Gold.

Joy Forster (B2 Aus), Bruce Jones with Drakes Pride bowls after wining Gold B2 Ladies Singles. 

Lynne Thomson, Wayne Thomson (B1 Aus), Ann Daly and John McCreight (B1 Scotland)

Friday 24th March 2017

Can you bowl as well as this? The black bowl is a NZ/SA Inv bowl. The rest are the bowls of our Australian B1 Pairs, Jenny Skinner (green/blue) and Wayne Thomson (gray).

Day 5 Results

B1 Wayne Thomson DEFEATED New Zealand  21:13

B1 Jenny Skinner DEFEATED Scotland 15:0  WOF

B1 Mixed Pairs Skinner / Thomson lost to New Zealand/SA (Friendly Match) 8:14

B2 Ralph Simpson lost to Scotland  14:21

B2 Mixed Pairs Simpson / Forster DEFEATED Scotland 10:0 WOF

B3 Chris Backstrom lost to South Africa  5:21

B3 Marian Morrison  DEFEATED Scotland  21:4

B3 Mixed Pairs Backstrom / Morrison lost to New Zealand 6:17

B4 Dennis Wormald  lost to South Africa  7:21

B4 Lynne Seymour lost to South Africa  20:21

B4 Mixed Pairs Seymour / Wormald lost to New Zealand/SA (Friendly Match)  7:23

Tuesday 21st March 2017

The team are starting to sleep better getting over their jet lag but we have a 'flu' and 'gastro' bug floating around.

Matches were cut short today due to extreme heat conditions causing play to be suspended and the Inclement Weather rule being invoked. It was HOT!!

The day finished with the team winning 6 out of 11 games contested.

Day 2 Results

B1 Men's Singles Wayne Thomson DEFEATED England 21:14
B1 Ladies Singles Jenny Skinner lost to Israel 16:17
B1 Mixed Pairs Skinner /Thomson DEFEATED England 12:3


B2 Men's Singles Ralph Simpson DEFEATED Hong Kong 15:1 (shortened match)
B2 Ladies Singles Joy Forster DEFEATED Hong Kong 15:1 (shortened match)
B2 Mixed Pairs Simpson / Forster DEFEATED Hong Kong 14:7


B3 Mens' Singles Chris Backstrom lost to England 14: 21
B3 Ladies Singles Marian Morrison DEFEATED England 21:5
B3 Mixed Pairs Backstrom / Morrison lost to England 2 :11 (shortened match)


B4 Men's Singles Dennis Wormald lost to Hong Kong 14:21
B4 Ladies Singles Lynne Seymour  BYE
B4 Mixed Pairs Seymour /Wormald  lost to Hong Kong 6:7 (shortened match)

Jenny Skinner (B1 Aus) and Sharon Ashtar (B1 Israel)  Back of Table Mountain and Devils's Peak is in the background.
Western Province Cricket Club

Steve Cook (B1 Eng), Wayne Thomson (B1 Aus), Lynne Thomson, Barry Walsh

Our B2 Pairs team: Bruce Jones, Joy Forster (B2), Ralph Simpson (B2), Jennifer Simpson

KWOK Wing (B4 Hong Kong),  Dennis Wormald (B4 Aus) Roz Myles, ADEM Osman

Beatrice Kassulke, Marian Morrison (B3 Aus) Tessa Furzeman (B3 Eng) Charles Furzeman

Monday 20th March 2017

RESULTS FOR ALL COUNTRIES INCLUDING THE OVERALL SCORES IS AVAILABLE ON bowlssa.co.za

Day 1 Results

B1 Men's Singles Wayne Thomson DEFEATED Canada 21:12
B1 Ladies Singles Jenny Skinner lost to England 4:21
B1 Mixed Pairs Skinner / Thomson lost to Canada/Northern Ireland 7:15 (Friendly match)


B2 Men's Singles Ralph Simpson lost to England 18:21
B2 Ladies Singles Joy Forster lost to England 15:21
B2 Mixed Pairs Simpson /Forster DEFEATED England 16:12


B3 Men's Singles Chris Backstrom lost to Canada 11:21
B3 Ladies Singles Marian Morrison DEEATED Canada 21:6
B3 Mixed Pairs Backstrom / Morrison DEFEATED Canada 16:11


B4 Men's Singles Dennis Wormald DEFEATED England 21:9
B4 Ladies Singles Lynne Seymour DEFEATED England 21:8
B4 Mixed Pairs Seymour / Wormald DEFEATED England 20:8

First day action at WPCC

Table Mountain is never far away

Jenny Skinner (Aus B1) in action in her first international match against the eventual gold medalist Sarah Marshall, from England

Chris Backstrom (Aus B3) with Director Mick Toovey in his first international match

Steve Illidge, Liz Ward (B4 Eng), Bob Seymour, Lynne Semour (B4 Aus)

Marker, Alan Lyne (B4 Eng), Dennis Wormald (B4 Aus), Roz Myles

Jenny Skinner (B1 Aus ) and Sarah Marrshall (B1 Eng)

David Mears, Maureen Ryan (B2 Eng) Joy Forster (B2 Aus),  Bruce Jones

B4 Pairs: , Lynne Seymour (B4 Aus),  Liz Ward,(B4 Eng), Roz Myles
Back row: Bob Seymour, Alan Lyne (B4 Eng)  Gareth Harwood  Dennis Wormald (B4 Aus)  

Don Sherry, Gus Thorne (B1 Can),Wayne Thomson (B1 Aus) Lynne Thomson

Marvin Kwan, Vivian Kwan (B3 Can),  Marian Morrison (B3 Aus) Beatrice Kassulke