John Higgins (bowls)

John Stewart Higgins (1940–2012) was an Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.

Bowls career

He started bowling aged 15 and won a bronze medal in the triples at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg. He also won a bronze medal in fours at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

He won the 1969 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.

Higgins plied his trade with YRCD bowling club through all of his career. Since his death the CD Hall as it is known has been renovated and also incorporates the HUBB Community Resource Centre, where a mural proudly stands of John playing bowls for his club.

References

1940 births

2012 deaths

Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland

Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls

Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland

Bowls players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games