Grant Knox

Grant Knox
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Scottish)
Born(1960-06-08)8 June 1960
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubArmadale BC (outdoor)
West Lothian (indoor)
Medal record
Representing  Scotland
World Outdoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Auckland team
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1986 Edinburgh pairs

Grant Knox (born 8 June 1960) is a former Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler who competed at the Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal.[1]

Biography

Knox took up bowling at the age of 14 because of his father Joe and together they won the Armadel pairs and the 1981 and 1985 Aberdeen Championships.[2]

Knox was selected to rpresent the Scottish team at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. A joiner by profession at the time of the Games[2] he participated in the pairs event and won a gold medal in the pairs with George Adrain at the [3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b "For Gold". West Lothian Courier. 25 July 1986. p. 31. Retrieved 6 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  4. ^ Newby, Donald (1988). The Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.