Jamie Chestney
Jamie Chestney (born 15 November 1986) is an English male international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
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Nationality | |
Born | Kings Lynn, England | 15 November 1986
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) |
Sport | |
Club | Kings BC (Torquay) |
Bowls career
Chestney is a twice national champion winning two National Championship titles in 2004 and 2009.[2]
His first major international medal came in 2012 when he gained a bronze medal at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in the pairs competition with Graham Shadwell.[3] Tow years later he competed for England in the men's fours at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal.[4]
He finished runner-up in the 2016 International Open and the following year won the Cooperative Funeralcare International Open.
In 2018 he won the World Indoor Open Pairs title with Mark Dawes [5] and then won the Mixed Pairs title the following day with Lesley Doig.[6]
In 2018 he was also selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland[7] where he claimed a bronze medal in the Fours with David Bolt, Louis Ridout and Sam Tolchard.[8][9]
He bowls for Kings BC, who have won the Top Club championship four years running from 2016-2019.[10]
Personal life
In 2015 he married fellow bowls international Natalie Melmore.[11]
References
- "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- "Past Records". Bowls England.
- "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "Jamie Chestney biography". Glasgow 2014. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- "Chestney & Dawes win Pairs Final". BBC Sport.
- "Second World Indoor title as Jamie Chestney gains revenge over Darren Burnett". BBC Sport.
- "2018 Commonwealth Games team". Team England.
- "Fours results". CG2018.
- "Commonwealth Games: Scotland's Alex Marshall wins record fifth gold as women take bronze in bowls". BBC Sport.
- "KINGS SECURE FOURTH SUCCESSIVE MEN'S TOP CLUB TITLE". Bowls England.
- "Commonwealth Games 2018: Natalie and Jamie Chestney - the couple going for gold". BBC Sport.