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Full name | Hugh Simpson Andrews | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Welsh | ||||||||||||||
Born | Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales | 26 January 1924||||||||||||||
Died | 20 March 2011 Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales | (aged 87)||||||||||||||
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Club | Brynhyfryd BC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hugh Simpson Andrews (26 January 1924 – 20 March 2011) was a Welsh international lawn bowler. [1]
Andrews won a bronze medal in the triples at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing. [2] He was capped 27 times by Wales between 1960 and 1972 and was the captain in 1970. [3]
Andrews won the 1971 fours title and finished runner-up in the 1972 pairs at the Welsh National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Brynhyfryd Bowls Club. [3]
Andrews was a civil servant by trade and took up bowls after his discharge from the Royal Air Force in 1947. [3]
Andrews died in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire on 20 March 2011, at the age of 87. [4] [5]