Mark McMahon (bowls)

Mark McMahon is a Scottish born indoor and lawn bowls player, who has represented England, Hong Kong and Australia at international level.[1]

Mark McMahon
Personal information
Born1970
Scotland
Medal record
Representing Hong Kong Hong Kong
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1990 AucklandMen's singles
Asia Pacific Bowls Championships
Silver medal – second place1989 Suvapairs
Silver medal – second place1989 Suvafours
Silver medal – second place1991 Kowloonpairs
Bronze medal – third place1993 Victoriapairs
Silver medal – second place1993 Victoriafours
Representing  England
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2001 Great Yarmouth Men's pairs

Bowls

Outdoors

He has had a nomadic career being born in Scotland but representing Hong Kong until 1995 and then England and Australia at international level. He represented Hong Kong at three Commonwealth Games in 1986, 1990 and 1994 with his greatest achievement being a silver medal in the singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[2][3]

He won five medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships representing Hong Kong, they were four silver medals and one bronze medal from 1989 to 1993.[4] In 1988, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title.[5]

Indoors

He has competed at the World indoor Championships since 1989 and has reached a career best seeding of three and we won the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title in Great Yarmouth with bowls partner Les Gillett.[6][7]

Family

Both of his parents Bill McMahon and Rosemary McMahon were international bowlers.[8]

References
  1. "Bowls: McMahon penalised". The Telegraph.
  2. "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  3. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  4. "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. "HK Classic winners Men Pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. "Bowls pair slam crowd's "ignorance"". BBC Sport.
  7. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  8. "Marksmen find range". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
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