# Lawn bowls at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Lawn bowls was among the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the twenty-first staging of lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games having featured in every Games bar 1966, and the third staging within England specifically.
The competition was scheduled to take place between 29 July and 6 August 2022, spread across eleven events (including three parasport events).

## Schedule

The competition schedule was as follows:
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| DateEvent | Fri 29 | Fri 29 | Sat 30 | Sat 30 | Sun 31 | Sun 31 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Tue 2 | Tue 2 | Tue 2 | Tue 2 | Wed 3 | Wed 3 | Wed 3 | Thu 4 | Thu 4 | Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Fri 5 | Fri 5 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | Sat 6 | Sat 6 | Sat 6 |
| Session → | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | M | M | A | A | M | M | A | A | M | A | A | M | A | A | M | M | A | A | M | M | A | A |
| Men's singles | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | | | G | | | G | | | ¼ | ¼ | | | ½ | ½ | B | F |
| Men's pairs | | G | | G | G | ¼ | ½ | ½ | ½ | | | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's triples | G | G | G | | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's fours | | | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | | G | G | | G | G | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | ½ | B | F | | |
| Women's singles | G | | G | | G | ¼ | ½ | ½ | ½ | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's pairs | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | | | G | | | G | | | ¼ | ½ | | | B | F | | |
| Women's triples | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | G | G | | G | G | | G | ¼ | ½ | ½ | B | F | | | | |
| Women's fours | | G | | G | G | ¼ | ½ | ½ | ½ | | | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Parasport ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's pairs B6–8 | G | G | G | G | | G | ½ | ½ | ½ | | | | | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's pairs B6–8 | G | G | G | G | | G | ½ | ½ | ½ | | | | | | | | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Mixed pairs B2–3 | | | | | | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | | | | G | G | | ½ | ½ | B | F | | | | | | |

## Venue

The lawn bowls competition will be held at the Victoria Park bowling greens in Leamington Spa.

## Qualification (parasport)

A total of 36 parasport bowlers (18 pairs) nominally qualify to compete at the Games. They qualify for each event as follows:
* One pair from the host nation.
* Five pairs (one per nation, excluding the hosts) receive a CGF / International Bowls for the Disabled (IBD) Bipartite Invitation.

## Medal table

* Host nation (England)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Scotland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | England* | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Wales | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | India | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Northern Ireland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Guernsey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |

## Medallists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Singles details | Aaron Wilson Australia | Gary Kelly Northern Ireland | Iain McLean Scotland |
| Pairs details | Wales Daniel Salmon Jarrad Breen | England Jamie Walker Sam Tolchard | Scotland Paul Foster Alex Marshall |
| Triples details | England Louis Ridout Nick Brett Jamie Chestney | Australia Barrie Lester Carl Healey Ben Twist | Wales Owain Dando Ross Owen Jonathan Tomlinson |
| Fours details | Northern Ireland Sam Barkley Adam McKeown Ian McClure Martin McHugh | India Sunil Bahadur Navneet Singh Chandan Kumar Singh Dinesh Kumar | England Louis Ridout Nick Brett Jamie Chestney Sam Tolchard |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Singles details | Ellen Ryan Australia | Lucy Beere Guernsey | Siti Zalina Ahmad Malaysia |
| Pairs details | Australia Kristina Krstic Ellen Ryan | England Amy Pharaoh Sophie Tolchard | New Zealand Katelyn Inch Selina Goddard |
| Triples details | England Jamie-Lea Winch Natalie Chestney Sian Honnor | Malaysia Nur Ain Nabilah Tarmizi Syafiqa Haidar Afif Abdul Rahman Azlina Arshad | New Zealand Nicole Toomey Tayla Bruce Val Smith |
| Fours details | India Rupa Rani Tirkey Nayanmoni Saikia Lovely Choubey Pinki Singh | South Africa Thabelo Muvhango Bridget Calitz Esme Kruger Johanna Snyman | New Zealand Selina Goddard Nicole Toomey Tayla Bruce Val Smith |

### Para-sport

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's pairs B6–8 details | Scotland Garry Brown Kevin Wallace | Australia Damien Delgado Chris Flavel | England Craig Bowler Kieran Rollings |
| Women's pairs B6–8 details | Scotland Rosemary Lenton Pauline Wilson | Australia Serena Bonnell Cheryl Lindfield | South Africa Desiree Levin Victoria van der Merwe |
| Mixed pairs B2–3 details | Scotland Melanie Inness George Miller Robert Barr Sarah Jane Ewing | Wales Julie Thomas Mark Adams Gordon LLewellyn John Wilson | England Alison Yearling Susan Wherry Chris Turnbull Mark Wherry |

## Participating nations

There were 24 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in lawn bowls with a total of 227 (118 men and 109 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.
* Australia (18)
* Botswana (4)
* Brunei (6)
* Canada (10)
* Cook Islands (10)
* England (18)
* Falkland Islands (5)
* Fiji (10)
* Guernsey (4)
* India (10)
* Jamaica (2)
* Jersey (5)
* Kenya (2)
* Malaysia (10)
* Malta (8)
* Namibia (2)
* New Zealand (18)
* Niue (10)
* Norfolk Island (10)
* Northern Ireland (10)
* Scotland (18)
* Singapore (3)
* South Africa (18)
* Wales (16)