Les Gillett

Les Gillett (born 17 November 1970) is an English international indoor and lawn bowls player.[1] He is nicknamed Razor.

Les Gillett
Personal information
Nationality England
Born (1970-11-17) 17 November 1970
Sport
Club(indoor) Leicester
Medal record
Representing  England
World Indoor Championships
2001 Great Yarmouth Men's Pairs
2017 Great Yarmouth Open Pairs

Bowls career

He won the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title in Great Yarmouth with bowls partner Mark McMahon.[2]

Sixteen years later he won his second title when he won the Open Pairs with Jason Greenslade at the 2017 World Indoor Bowls Championship in Great Yarmouth.[3][4]

Major wins include the 1997 International Open and 2002 Welsh Open and is also a winner of three National Titles in 1993 and 1994 when representing Cheltenham and Gloucestershire and 1998 when representing Oxfordshire and Banbury Borough.[5] He now represents the Leicester indoor club.[6]

Personal life

He is an estimator/buyer by trade and is married to Sadie Gillett with three children.[6]

References
  1. "Les Gillett Profile". World Bowls Tour.
  2. "Bowls pair slam crowd's "ignorance"". BBC Sport.
  3. "World Indoor Bowls: Jason Greenslade and Les Gillett win world titles". BBC Sport.
  4. "Profile". Bowls tawa.
  5. "Past Records". Bowls England.
  6. "Profile". World Bowls TV.


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