{{Short description|Welsh international indoor and lawn bowler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Jason Greenslade | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | birth_name = | fullname = Jason John Greenslade | nationality = Welsh | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|03|06|df=y}} | birth_place = Penarth, Wales | death_date = | death_place = | club = Sully (indoor) <br /> Dinas Powys (outdoor) | highestranking = '''28''' (March 2025)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldbowlsseries.com/male-rankings/ |title=Male rankings |publisher=World Bowls Series |access-date=20 October 2024}}</ref> | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{WAL}}}} {{MedalCompetition|World Outdoor Championships}} {{MedalBronze|2004 Ayr|Men's pairs}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze | 2002 Manchester|Men's fours}} {{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Bowls Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2003 Yarmouth|Men's pairs}} {{MedalSilver|2007 Yarmouth|Men's pairs}} {{MedalSilver|2012 Yarmouth|Men's singles}} {{MedalGold|2017 Yarmouth|Open pairs}} {{MedalSilver|2025 Yarmouth|Open pairs}} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold|2009 Johannesburg|Men's pairs}} {{MedalBronze|2009 Johannesburg|Men's singles}} {{MedalCompetition|British Isles Championships}} {{MedalGold|2015|singles}} {{MedalCompetition|WB Indoor Championships}} {{MedalGold | 2024 Guernsey | singles }} }}

'''Jason John Greenslade'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://m2006.thecgf.com/Participants/Lawn+Bowls+Biographies.htm |title=Lawn Bowls Athlete and Team Biographies |publisher=Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games |access-date=11 November 2022 |archive-date=11 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111013322/http://m2006.thecgf.com/Participants/Lawn+Bowls+Biographies.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> (born 6 March 1970) is a Welsh international indoor and lawn bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bowlstawa.nz/titles/players/titles/2401|title=Profile|publisher=Bowls tawa}}</ref> After moving to Guernsey in 2022 he later represented them in competition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://guernseypress.com/sport/2022/10/11/sarnian-four-start-their-title-defence/ |title=Sarnian four start their title defence |date=11 October 2022 |publisher=Guernsey Press |access-date=15 January 2023}}</ref> He reached a career high ranking of world number 28 in March 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldbowlsseries.com/male-rankings/ |title=Male rankings |publisher=World Bowls Series |access-date=9 March 2025 }}</ref>

== Bowls career == === Outdoors === Greenslade took up bowling at the age of eight after his parents (both Welsh internationals) introduced him to the sport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowlstour.com/players/biography/jason-greenslade|title=Jason Greenslade Profile|publisher=World Bowls Tour}}</ref>

In 2001, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hklba.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144&Itemid=218&lang=en | title=HK Classic winners Men Singles | publisher=HKLBA | access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref>

He has competed three Commonwealth Games in the 2002 Commonwealth Games at Heaton Park, Manchester (where he won a bronze in the fours, in the 2006 Commonwealth Games at the John Cain Memorial Park in Thornbury, Victoria, Australia and in the 2010 Commonwealth Games at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48203|title=Athletes and Results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=17 January 2019|archive-date=17 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417181043/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48203|url-status=dead}}</ref> His outdoor club is Dinas Powys. In 2009 he won the pairs gold medal and singles bronze medal 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=2010-03-14}}</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=November 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

He was the Welsh National singles champion in 2011 as 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.welshbowls.co.uk/WBAHandbookFinalProof.pdf|title=WBA Handbook|publisher=Welsh Bowls}}</ref> and won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://britishislesbowls.com/history-of-the-bibc/previous-winners/|title=Previous Winners|date=30 July 2013|publisher=British Isles Bowls Council}}</ref>

=== Indoors === Greenslade finished runner-up to Andy Thomson in the 2012 World Indoor Bowls Championship<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/16782251|title=Andy Thomson wins third World Bowls Championship|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref> and runner-up twice in the Pairs in the 2003 World Indoor Bowls Championship and 2007 World Indoor Bowls Championship with partner Robert Weale. He also won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in the pairs again with Robert Weale.

Individual success includes the 2004 Scottish Masters and 2006 Welsh International Open but his greatest achievement indoors was winning the Open pairs with bowls partner Les Gillett at the 2017 World Indoor Bowls Championship in Great Yarmouth.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/38722707|title=World Indoor Bowls: Jason Greenslade and Les Gillett win world titles|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref> His indoor club is Sully.

After switching to represent Guernsey he won the singles title at the 2024 World Bowls Indoor Championships, held at the Guernsey Indoor Bowling Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/articles/crgyey4v1nno |title=Guernsey's Greenslade wins World Bowls Indoor Championship |date=27 April 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport |access-date=13 May 2024}}</ref>

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{CGF profile}} * {{2006 Commonwealth Games profile|106870}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenslade, Jason}} Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Welsh male bowls players Category:Indoor Bowls World Champions Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales Category:Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Category:Sportspeople from Penarth Category:Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls