Keith Poole (bowls)

Poole won a silver medal in the fours with Don Woolnough, Leigh Bishop and Barry Salter and a bronze medal in the team event (Leonard Cup) at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg.^[2] He also won a silver medal in the team event four years later.^[3]

Poole won a silver medal as part of the fours team with Robert King, Errol Bungey and Errol Stewart at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.^[4] Eight years later he represented Australia at the 1982 Commonwealth Games^[5] and skipped the four to a gold medal success in the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. The gold medal winning team was Poole, Rob Dobbins, Bert Sharp and Don Sherman.^[6]

He won a gold medal at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the 1985 fours at Tweed Heads, New South Wales.^[7]

He was an accountant by trade and was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame.^[8] He died in 2012.