Aaron Wilson (born 24 November 1991) is an Australian international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
Wilson won the 2016 World Junior Championships and won the gold medal with bowls partner Brett Wilkie in the pairs at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and won a silver medal in the fours. He won the Australian Open singles title in 2013.
Wilson was selected as part of the Australian team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland, where he won a gold medal in the singles. He is currently high performance coach of the Cabramatta Bowling Club in Sydney.
In 2020, he was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following year in 2021, he won his second Australian Open singles crown.
In 2022, he competed in the men's singles and the men's pairs at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and won the gold medal in the men's singles. In 2022, he also won his third Australian Open.
In 2023, he won his fourth Australian Open, after a second successive pairs win with Ben Twist and then he was selected as part of the team to represent Australia at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. He participated in the men's singles and the men's pairs events. In the pairs with Aaron Teys, they won the silver medal after losing to Ireland in the final and one week later, in the singles he won a bronze medal after reaching the semi final stage, where he lost to Gary Kelly.
References
External links
Aaron Wilson at Bowls Australia
1991 births
Australian male bowls players
Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Bowls players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Bowls World Champions
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
Living people
Sportsmen from Victoria (state) 21st-century Australian people Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games