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| Nationality | New Zealander | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1956-01-18)18 January 1956 (age 69) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Okahu Bay BC Avondale BC Cabramatta BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rowan James BrasseyMNZM (born 18 January 1956) is a former New Zealand internationallawn and indoor bowls player.[1]
An earth-moving contractor by trade, Brassey's first national success was the 1980 New Zealand Open Pairs.[2] He went on to win eightNew Zealand National Bowls Championships titles in the pairs (1982) and the fours (1981, 1982, 1990, 1995, 2002, 2003 & 2012/13) when bowling for the Okahu Bay, Avondale and Cabramatta Bowls Clubs respectively.[3]
Brassey has competed at five World Bowls Championships, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 & 2000; winning gold in 1988 (pairs, withPeter Belliss), and in 2000 he won the gold medal withAndrew Curtain and Peter Belliss in themen's triples at the2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship inJohannesburg.[4]
He has competed at sixCommonwealth Games:1982,1990,1994,1998,2002 and2006.[5][6]
In 1990, Brassey was awarded theNew Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[7] In the2001 New Year Honours, he was appointed aMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to bowls.[8]
He won eight medals at theAsia Pacific Bowls Championships including three gold medals.[9]
In 2013, Brassey was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[10]
