{{Short description|British lawn bowler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Use British English|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Graham Shadwell | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|7|22|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | club = Cooper Avon | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalSport|}} {{MedalCompetition|World Outdoor Championships}} {{MedalBronze | 2008 Christchurch | Men's fours }} {{MedalBronze | 2012 Adelaide | Men's Pairs }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze| 2010 Delhi|Men's Triples}} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2009 Johannesburg|triples}} {{MedalSilver|2009 Johannesburg|fours}} {{MedalGold|2011 Paphos|triples}} {{MedalBronze|2015 Paphos|pairs}} }}
'''Graham Anthony George Shadwell''' (born 1975)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|title=births|publisher=Free BMD}}</ref> is an English international bowls player.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/sport/11851578.BOWLS__Shadwell_back_in_the_England_frame/|title=BOWLS: Shadwell back in the England frame|date=13 March 2015 |publisher=Wiltshire Times}}</ref>
== Bowls career == Shadwell won the 1999 national junior singles defeating Robert Newman in the final.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004845/19990816/042/0042 |title=Bowls |work=Sandwell Evening Mail |date=16 August 1999 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2024}}</ref>
Shadwell won two bronze medals at consecutive World Outdoor Championships in 2008 in the fours with Mark Bantock, Stephen Farish and Robert Newman and in 2012 in the pairs with Jamie Chestney.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bowlstawa.nz/titles/players/titles/3435|title=Profile|publisher=Bowls Tawa}}</ref>
In between the two World Championships he won another bronze medal in the triples with Bantock and Newman at the lawn bowls competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/57760|title=Athletes and Results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=9 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124544/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/57760|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2009 he won the triples and fours silver medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|title=2009 Atlantic Championships|publisher=World Bowls Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314062629/http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|access-date=21 May 2021|archive-date=14 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503964873/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=284753c0 |title=Bowls |date=18 May 2009 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=21 May 2021 |page=61 |via=The Times Digital Archive |url-access=subscription }}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> and in 2011 he won the triples gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/mainresults.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031201626/http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/mainresults.php |archive-date=31 October 2011 |title=2011 Atlantic Championships |publisher=World Bowls Ltd |access-date=19 May 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015 he won the pairs bronze medal at the Atlantic Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowls.com/event/2015-atlantic-championship/|title=2015 Atlantic Championships|publisher=World Bowls|access-date=15 May 2021}}</ref>
In 2004 & 2008, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs titles with Mark Walton.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hklba.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146&Itemid=218&lang=en | title=HK Classic winners Men Pairs | publisher=HKLBA | access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> He was selected to represent England at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship but had to pull out and has won the English Indoor Bowling Association's Champion of Champions title twice.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/sport/10203582.BOWLS__Shadwell_wins_national_title_for_second_time/|title=BOWLS: Shadwell wins national title for second time|date=3 February 2013 |publisher=This is Wiltshire}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shadwell, Graham}} Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:English male bowls players Category:Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Category:Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls Category:21st-century English sportsmen