Thomas Greechan
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| Nationality | British (Scottish / Jersey) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 June 1976 Glasgow, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | St Brelade BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Greechan (born 19 June 1976) is a Scottish born international lawn bowls player from Jersey. He became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2016.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]World Championships
[edit]Greechan has competed for Jersey at two World Bowls Championships in 2000 and 2012.
Commonwealth Games
[edit]He has represented Jersey at two Commonwealth Games; at the 2002 and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[2][3][4]
Other events
[edit]In addition to his British Isles Championship success he won the Jersey's first World Singles Champion of Champions in 2011, in Hong Kong. He beat Jonathan Ross of Scotland in a tie-break set 5–0, despite dropping the first set.[5]
Greechan also medalled at the 2007 Atlantic Bowls Championships, with silver in the men's fours event.[6][7] Jersey's bowls team, which finished second in the overall combined medal table at the Games, narrowly missed out on 2008 Channel Islands' Team of the Year to Jersey's cricketers.[8][9]
In April 2015, Greechan won the IIBC Championships Mixed Pairs world title with his 14-year-old daughter, Chloe.[10][11]
Family and awards
[edit]In 2012, Thomas Greechan was voted Channel Islands' Sports Personality of the Year and won Sports Person of the Year in Jersey.[12][13] He has also been selected as Jersey's men's outdoor Bowler of the Year twice, in 2005, and 2006.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council. 30 July 2013.
- ^ "SPORTS UPDATE: Irvine: We'll just let Mika self-destruct; UPDATE". Free Library. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ "Sport Digest". Herald Scotland. 20 September 1999. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ "Athletes Biography". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Tommy Greechan wins World Champion of Champions bowls". BBC Sport.
- ^ "2007 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 July 2007. p. 61. Retrieved 20 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Jersey's star duo hope to build on Sharp success". Jersey Evening Post. 24 January 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Champagne moment for Banahan". Jersey Evening Post. 25 January 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Jersey teenager crowned youngest ever World Bowls Champion". ITV. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Bowls: CI bowlers secure world titles". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Thomas Greechan named Jersey sports person of the year". BBC. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ "Greechan takes top award as Jersey dominate night". Guernsey Press. 27 January 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ "Mens Bowler of the Year Winner". BJA. Retrieved 24 November 2015.