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| Born | Peter James Belliss (1951-11-12)12 November 1951 (age 74) Wanganui, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relative | Moke Belliss (grandfather) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Aramoho Bowling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peter James BellissMBE (born 12 November 1951) is a formerlawn bowls player forNew Zealand.[1]
Belliss was born inWanganui in 1951, attending (and playing rugby football at)Wanganui Boys' College. He started playing in the 1970s in the Aramaho (Wanganui) club;Joseph Romanos called himThe young Turk of lawn bowls. He had been a railways fitter, and in 1982 was the first New Zealand lawn bowler to turn professional.
At theWorld Bowls Championships, Belliss won the 1984 singles in Aberdeen against local playerWillie Wood, the 1988 pairs withRowan Brassey, andmen's triples with Brassey andAndrew Curtain at the2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship inJohannesburg.[2]
He has competed at fourCommonwealth Games:1982 (winning bronze),1994 (winning bronze),1998, and2002; missing 1986 as a professional and 1990 as he had played in South Africa five years previously.[3]
He won six medals at theAsia Pacific Bowls Championships including four gold medals[4] and in 1983 and 1989, he won theHong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title.[5]
He won the 1981, 1986 and 1992 singles titles, the 1992 and 1995 pairs titles, and the 2009, 2014/15 and 2016/17 fours titles at theNew Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Aramoho Bowling Club.[6]
He was a coach at the2006 Commonwealth Games.
In the1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Belliss was appointed aMember of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls.[7] In 2013, Belliss was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[8]
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