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Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sunderland | 23 December 1978||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn / indoor bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Silksworth BC South Shields IBC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Bolt (born 1973) is an English male lawn and indoor bowler.
Bolt is an England international [1] and was the National singles champion in 2011 and National fours champion in 2014 during the Men's National Championships. [2]
In 2016, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title and the following year finished runner-up in the pairs with Taylor Monk. [3]
He was selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland [4] [5] where he claimed a bronze medal in the Fours with Jamie Chestney, Louis Ridout and Sam Tolchard. [6] [7]
In 2019 he won the triples bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships [8] and in 2021 was runner-up to Sam Tolchard in the National singles. [9]
Bolt was a postman by trade but set up a bowls shop business at the South Shields Bowling Centre in 2016. [10]