Abdul Kitchell

Abdul Raheem Kitchell is a Hong Kong international lawn bowler.[1]

Abdul Kitchell
Personal information
Nationality Hong Kong
Born1916
Sport
ClubIndian Recreation BC

Bowls career

Kitchell was born in 1916 in Hong Kong after his family emigrated from Malaysia in the 1890s. He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966.[2] Six years later he won a bronze medal in the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[3]

In between he won a gold medal at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[4]

Personal life

He was an oil company executive by trade.[5]

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gollark: I mostly only use my phone for occasionally taking bad photographs of things and photographing documents, so in my endless search for a new phone (hopefully finishing that tomorrow...) I mostly just ignore cameras.
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References

  1. "Hong Kong Delegation for Olympic Games (1952-2008)" (PDF). Hong Kong Olympic.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
  2. Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
  3. "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
  4. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  5. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
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