Ray Pearse
Australian lawn bowler
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Ray Pearse (born 25 July 1984) is an international Australian lawn bowler.[1]
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 July 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | bowls coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Taren Point | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 11 (September 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bowls career
Pearse has won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, a silver medal and bronze medal in 2015 and a bronze in the singles and a silver in the pairs with Nathan Rice at the 2019 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the Gold Coast, Queensland.[2][3]
Pearse won the 2018 Australian National Bowls Championships and also won the NSW Champion of Club Champions Singles and NSW State Singles titles in 2018.[4]
In 2021, he won his second Australian Open crown, this time in the pairs.[5]
Together with Samantha Atkinson, he won the pairs title at the 2024 World Bowls Indoor Championships, held at the Guernsey Indoor Bowling Association.[6][7] The success in 2024 continued when Pearse won the Australian Open fours title with Peter Taylor, Gary Kelly and Carl Healey, it was Pearse's third Australian Open title.[8]