Alex Marshall (bowls)


Alex "Tattie" Marshall, MBE is record breaking Scottish bowls player.
Marshall plays at Gifford Bowls Club and East Lothian Indoor Bowling Club. He was awarded an MBE in the 2007 New Year Honours List for his services to the sport. Marshall began bowling at the age of eight supported by both his father and grandfather and first represented his country in 1988.
He is a record breaking six-time World Indoor Singles Champion. He has six World Indoor Pairs titles to his credit. Marshall has won six World Outdoor Championship Gold medals.
His other achievements include four Commonwealth Games Gold medals, one Atlantic Games Team Gold, and three Hong Kong International Classic Pairs titles.
In 2012, Marshall and Paul Foster became the first pair to win the World Indoor and Outdoor Pairs titles in the same year. In 2013, he claimed his first major WBT title outside the World Indoor title at the UK International Open. In 2014, he won the Australian Premier League with the Murray Steamers and was named Most Valuable Player at the end of the season. Marshall would also offer a challenge to Short mat bowls players from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland aiming to defeat them in a game of short mat bowls. Marshall would defeat Scotland's Lawrence Moffat and Wales' Ceri Jones; but would lose to Wales' multiple time world champion Steven Williams, and Irelands Dessie Hamilton. In the rubber match, he would draw against England's Dominic Reed. However, Reed would win the game's extra end.
In 2016, two more bronze medals were added when he competed in the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch. He added a pairs silver as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games with Paul Foster. He then set a gold medal record for Scotland by winning the gold medal in the Fours with Ronnie Duncan, Derek Oliver and Paul Foster.
The success continued in 2019 when he won another open pairs at the 2019 World Indoor Bowls Championship, this was a fourth with Paul Foster and sixth in total. This was his 14th World indoor gold medal.
In 2020 he was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.

World Indoor Performance timeline

2010201120122013201420152016201720182019
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Mixed PairsWR1R1DNEQFSFRUQFQFDNE

Men's Doubles partners = 2000 - 2003 David Gourlay, 2004 - 2017 & 2019 Paul Foster, 2018 Neil Furman

Mixed Doubles partners = 2004 Amy Monkhouse, 2006 Laura Hawryszko, 2007 Alison Merrien, 2008 Caroline Brown, 2009 Debbie Stavrou, 2010 - 2011 Carol Ashby, 2012 Janice Gower, 2014 Alison Merrien, 2015 - 2016 Julie Forrest.