Jamie Chestney
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 November 1986 Kings Lynn, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Culm Vale (outdoor) Exonia BC (indoor) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jamie Chestney (born 15 November 1986) is an English male international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]International achievements
[edit]His first major international medal came in 2011 when he won the singles and triples gold medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[2] The following year he gained a bronze medal at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in the pairs competition with Graham Shadwell.[3] Two years later he competed for England in the men's fours at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal.[4]
He finished runner-up in the 2016 International Open and the following year won the Cooperative Funeralcare International Open.
In 2018, he won the World Indoor Open Pairs title with Mark Dawes[5] and then won the Mixed Pairs title the following day with Lesley Doig.[6]
In 2018 he was also selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland[7] where he claimed a bronze medal in the Fours with David Bolt, Louis Ridout and Sam Tolchard.[8][9]
Chestney won a third world indoor title when winning the open pairs at the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship for the second time with Mark Dawes.[10][11]
In 2022, he competed in the men's triples and the men's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[12] The team of Chestney, Nick Brett and Louis Ridout won the triples gold medal and in the fours he also secured a bronze medal.[13]
National achievements
[edit]Chestney is a three times national champion, winning National Championship titles in 2004, 2009 and 2021.[14][15] Chestney was aged just 17 when he won the pairs title with Ian Wynter in 2004.[16]
He was also part of the Kings Bowls Club, who have won the Top Club championship four years running from 2016-2019.[17]
National titles
- 2004 Bowls England National Championships (Men's Pairs)
- 2009 Bowls England National Championships (Men's Junior Singles)
- 2021 Bowls England National Championships (Men's Champion of Champions)
Personal life
[edit]In 2015, he married fellow bowls international Natalie Melmore.[18] In 2020, he joined the Bowls England staff as a its Membership Register Project Officer.
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Jamie Chestney biography". Glasgow 2014. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "Chestney & Dawes win Pairs Final". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Second World Indoor title as Jamie Chestney gains revenge over Darren Burnett". BBC Sport.
- ^ "2018 Commonwealth Games team". Team England.
- ^ "Fours results". CG2018.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Scotland's Alex Marshall wins record fifth gold as women take bronze in bowls". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Dawes And Chestney Win Second Open Pairs Title". Bowls International. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Second world pairs title for Mark Dawes following closure of Blackpool Newton Hall Indoor Bowling Club". Blackpool Gazette. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Official Games profile". 2022 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: England's men take gold in lawn bowls triples". BBC. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
- ^ "Daily Round Up". Bowls England. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "Sport in Brief". The Times. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "KINGS SECURE FOURTH SUCCESSIVE MEN'S TOP CLUB TITLE". Bowls England.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games 2018: Natalie and Jamie Chestney - the couple going for gold". BBC Sport.
External links
[edit]- Jamie Chestney at Team England
- Jamie Chestney at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Jamie Chestney at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Jamie Chestney at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Jamie Chestney at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 1986 births
- Living people
- English male bowls players
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from King's Lynn
- Indoor Bowls World Champions
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century English sportsmen