Nationality Scottish Name Paul Foster Sport Bowls | Weight 95 kg (209 lb) Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) Role Bowls | |
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Born 13 March 1973 (age 51) ( 1973-03-13 ) Irvine, Scotland | ||
Robert weale vs paul foster final
Paul James Foster MBE (born 13 March 1973) is a bowls player who lives in Troon, Scotland. Foster is also a taxi proprietor. He plays at Troon Portland (Outdoor) & Ambassador Prestwick (Indoor) bowling clubs.
Contents
- Robert weale vs paul foster final
- Paul foster takes bowls scotland s try bowls trick shot challenge as part of the stv appeal
- Bowling career
- Awards
- References
Paul foster takes bowls scotland s try bowls trick shot challenge as part of the stv appeal
Bowling career
Foster is the second most prolific winner of the World Indoor Championship singles title, behind six-times winner, pairs partner and close friend Alex Marshall. He has five wins from six final appearances (in 1998, 2001, 2005, 2011 and 2017), with his only defeat coming in the 2013 final to Stewart Anderson.
He has a record nine major WBT titles to his credit plus three Commonwealth Games Gold medals, two in pairs competition with his partner, Alex Marshall (in 2006 and 2014), and another in the fours event (in 2014 with Marshall too). The pairing went on to win the World Indoor Pairs title in 2011, 2012, and 2013. In 2012, they added the World Outdoor Pairs title, becoming the first players to win the indoor and outdoor pairs titles in the same year.
In addition, Foster won the World Indoor Mixed Pairs title with Laura Thomas in 2013 and 2014 and the World Indoor Pairs title with Hugh Duff in 2002. In 2007, Foster was the first bowler to win back-to-back major WBT titles. In 2009, Foster became the first bowler to win a sixth major WBT title in his career, also becoming WBT world number one for the first time.
In 2016 two more bronze medals were added when he competed in the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch and in 2017 he won his fifth world indoor singles title.
Awards
He was inducted into the World Bowls Tour (WBT) Hall of Fame in 2008, as well as winning Players' Player of the Year and Performance of the Year at the inaugural World Bowls Tour Awards in 2008. In 2010, Foster won WBT Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year. In 2012, he was again voted WBT Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year, also winning Shot of the Year He won another three awards in 2013, which were for Fans' Player of the Year, Performance of the Year, and Shot of the Year.
Foster was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to bowls.