Ron Buchan


Maurice Ronald Buchan was a New Zealand international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 and won a gold medal in the fours with Norm Lash, Gordon Jolly and Bill O'Neill at the event.
He won the 1964 and 1965 singles title and the 1957 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Tui Park Bowls Club.

Awards

He was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours. He died in 2003.