Peter Belliss

Peter Belliss

Medal record
Men's lawn bowls
Representing New Zealand
World Bowls Championships
	1984 Aberdeen	men's singles
	1988 Auckland	men's doubles
	2000 Johannesburg	men's triples
Commonwealth Games
	1994 Victoria	men's fours
	1982 Brisbane	men's singles

Peter James Belliss, MBE, is a former lawn bowls player for New Zealand.

Background

Belliss was born in Wanganui in 1951, attending (and playing rugby football at) Wanganui Boys' College. He started playing in the 1970s in the Aramaho (Wanganui) club; Romanos called him The young Turk of lawn bowls. He had been a railways fitter, and in 1982 was the first New Zealand lawn bowler to turn professional.

Bowls career

At the World Bowls Championships, Bellis won the 1984 singles in Aberdeen against local player Willie Wood, the 1988 pairs with Rowan Brassey, and triples with Brassey and Andrew Curtain in Johannesburg in 2000.

He has competed at four Commonwealth Games: 1982 (winning bronze), 1994 (winning bronze), 1998, and 2002; missing 1986 as a professional and 1990 as he had played in South Africa five years previously.

He was a coach at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Honours

In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Belliss was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls.

References

• New Zealand’s top 100 sports history makers by Joseph Romanos, page 214 (2006, Trio Books, Wellington) ISBN 0-9582455-8-4
• Profile at NZOC website