Roy Fulton


Roy Fulton is a Scottish born former Irish international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

He represented a combined Ireland team at the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966
and won a bronze medal in the singles at the championship.
In addition he won a bronze medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and represented Northern Ireland at the Lawn Bowls at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and Lawn bowls at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.
He was also seven time singles champion at the Irish National Bowls Championships in addition to six pairs. He also won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1968.

Personal life

He was a former rugby player with Hillhead High School and a Scottish schoolboys billiards international. He took up bowling in 1946 before switching allegiance to Ireland.