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LAWN BOWLS SPORT

LAWN BOWLS SPORT

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In Commonwealth Games 2022, Indian women's team scripted history by winning the country’s first-ever Gold Medal in “Women’s Four Lawn Bowls” Sport.

About

• Lawn bowls is often considered a mix of “Ten-pin Bowling” and the winter sport of “Curling”.
• While in ten-pin bowling, the goal is to take down all the pins at the end of a lane.
• In lawn bowling, the team has to get the ‘Bowl’ (the Ball) closest to a target, which is known as the ‘Jack’.
• Bowls are mostly spherical ball-like objects, typically made of wood, rubber or plastic resin, having flattened sides.

India’s Participation

• Since its inaugural edition in 1930, lawn bowls has been a part of the Commonwealth Games.
• So far, England, Australia and South Africa have won the most medals in the game, having won 51, 50 and 44 medals respectively.
• Scotland has won 20 gold medals at the Commonwealth Games so far.
• India has participated in lawn bowls events at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games.
• The country’s previous best was at fourth place in the 2010 women’s triples lawn bowling event in Delhi and in the 2014 men’s fours event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Commonwealth Games

• Commonwealth Games is a multisport event contested by athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.
• The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the organisation responsible for the direction and control of the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games.
• It is an organisation headquartered and incorporated in the UK, but working across 72 member nations and territories.