Roberto_da_Silva

Roberto da Silva

Roberto da Silva

Hong Kong international lawn bowler

Roberto Eduardo da Silva is a former Hong Kong international lawn bowler.[1]

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Bowls career

He was born in 1932 to Portuguese parents and won a bronze medal in the fours with Saco Delgado and Abdul Kitchell at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[2]

Either side of the World Championship he won two Commonwealth Games gold medals. In 1970 he was part of the four that won the gold medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and eight years later repeated the success at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton.[3]

Personal life

He was a banking official by trade.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Roberto da Silva Profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. [2]
    "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
  3. [3]
    "Achievements of Hong Kong China team". Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association.
  4. [4]
    Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.


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