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Richard Corsie
Scottish bowls player
Richard Corsie MBE (born 27 November 1966) is a Scottish international outdoor and indoor bowls player, he is considered to be among the best bowls players of all time.[1]
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Corsie was born on 27 November 1966 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland.[1]
Corsie won the World Indoor Bowls Championships singles title three times during his career[2] and also won the pairs title twice with Alex Marshall and Graham Robertson respectively.
He competed at the 1986 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal in the singles event and became the youngest Commonwealth Games medallist in bowling.[3]
He won the pairs title at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship with Marshall and two years later won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in the singles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games beating his long-time nemesis and friend Tony Allcock in the final.[4]
In 1987, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title, in addition to winning the pairs titles in 1988.[5][6]
He was the Chairman of the Professional Bowls Association when the World Bowls Tour was formed on 1 January 1997.[7]
Corsie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1999 New Year Honours for services to bowls.[8]
He was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in March 2010.[9]
- "BBC - A Sporting Nation - Richard Corsie". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 August 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- "Times are changing for Corsie, the bowling postman". The Daily Telegraph. 2 August 1986. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- "HK Classic winners Men Singles". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "HK Classic winners Men Pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "Jones, David Rhys. "New body defended by Corsie." Times, 1 Jan. 1997, p. 29". Times Digital Archives.
- UK list: "No. 55354". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 31 December 1998. p. 15.
- "Six sporting legends honoured in Scottish Sports Hall of Fame". Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. 16 March 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
- Richard Corsie MBE at the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
- Richard Corsie at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)