Peter Line (bowls)

Line won the fours gold medal with Norman King, Cliff Stroud and Ted Hayward at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.^[2] Four years later, he won two more medals: a bronze medal in the fours with John C Evans, Bill Irish and Tommy Armstrong and a silver medal in the team event (Leonard Cup).

Line won the gold medal in the pairs with Norman King during the 1970 British Commonwealth Games^[3] and four years later won a silver medal with John Evans in the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.^[4][5]

Line bowled for the Banister Park Bowls Club in Southampton, Hampshire and won the national singles title in 1961 and 1964.^[6][2][7][8] In 1999, bowling for the Atherley Club, he won the national senior singles.^[9]

Line first played for England in 1955.

In 1984, he married fellow England international, Wendy Line (née Clarke).^[10] By trade, Line was a civil service cartographical draughtsman and joined the Banister Park Bowls Club in 1948.^[2] He died on 17 February 2025, aged 94.^[11]