Kelvin Lightfoot

Kelvin 'Kelly' Lightfoot
Personal information
Nationality South Africa South Africa
Born 1927
Died Unknown
Medal record
Representing South Africa South Africa
World Outdoor Championships
1966 Kyeemagh Men's triples
1976 Johannesburg Men's triples
1976 Johannesburg Men's fours

Kelvin 'Kelly' Lightfoot (born 1927) was a former South African international lawn bowler.

Lightfoot won the 1962 national singles and fours and seven years later in 1969 won the national singles again. He was the first winner of the national masters and would have won more frequently but suffered from a back injury.[1]

Lightfoot came to prominence in 1966 when he won a triples bronze at the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. In 1976 he won the Triples and Fours Gold Medal at the World Outdoor Championships in Johannesburg. In the Triples with Kevin Campbell and Nando Gatti they won 14 of their 15 matches.[2] In the fours with Campbell, Gatti and Bill Moseley they repeated the feat of winning 14 of the 15 matches played.[2]

The South African team completed a clean sweep of all events at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. The lawn bowlers from South Africa were denied further opportunities to win medals due to the Sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bell, Harry E (1976). 3rd World Bowls Championship, South Africa 1976. J.G.Ince & Son Ltd.
  2. 1 2 Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
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