Mal Hughes
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 August 1932 Hartlepool, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 July 2008 (aged 75) Middlesbrough, England | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Eldon Grove BC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
.svg.png){kind=icon}
Malcolm "Mal" Hughes (1932-2008) was an English international lawn and indoor bowler.
Biography
Hughes competed for England at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in the fours event.[1][2]
In 1979 he won the inaugural Hartlepool Sports Personality of the Year award.[3]
The following year, he won a gold medal in the team event (Leonard Cup) at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne with Tony Allcock, David Bryant, Jimmy Hobday and John Bell.[4][5]
He was the national pairs champion with George Turley at the 1983 National Championships bowling for Eldon Grove BC of Durham.[6][7]
Hughes was the manager of Hartlepool Indoor Bowls Club up until the time he died in 2008.[8]
References
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Games pair in Masters". Belfast Telegraph. 23 May 1978. Retrieved 28 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Another award for Mal Hughes". Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail. 8 February 1980. p. 31. Retrieved 31 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Family affair". Torbay Express and South Devon Echo. 18 August 1983. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Family's tribute to bowls hero Mal". Hartelpool Mail.