{{Short description|Scottish indoor bowler (born 1980)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use British English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Michael Stepney | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|12|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Elgin, Moray | death_date = | death_place = | sport = indoor bowls | club = Elgin (indoors) | highestranking = '''20''' (March 2025) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's bowls }} {{MedalCompetition | World Indoor Championships}} {{MedalGold|2025 Yarmouth|Open Pairs}} {{MedalCompetition|WB Indoor Championships}} {{MedalGold | 2022 Bristol | singles }} }}
'''Michael Stepney''' (born 1980) is a Scottish indoor bowler.<ref name=WBT>{{cite web|url=https://worldbowlstour.tv/michael-stepney/|title=Profile|date=4 April 2018 |publisher=World Bowls Tour}}</ref> He reached a career high ranking of world number 20 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 == He won the Scottish National Singles Championship in 2009 and the British Isles Singles Championship the following year.<ref name=WBT/> In 2017, he finished runner-up in the Scottish International Open, losing out to David Gourlay. This helped him break into the WBT top 16 during 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldbowlstour.tv/co-op-funeralcare-scottish-international-open-2017-schedule-results/|title=2017 SCHEDULE AND SCORES|date=July 2017 |publisher=World Bowls Tour}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/41942316|title=Bowls Scottish Open: Michael Stepney & David Gourlay into final|date=10 November 2017 |publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref>
In 2022, Stepney won the men's singles gold medal at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships, defeating Stewart Anderson in the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/sport/watch-burgheads-michael-stepney-win-world-bowls-indoor-sing-274232/|title=WATCH: Moray bowler Michael Stepney crowned as world singles champion at the World Bowls Indoor Championships in Bristol after a thrilling last-bowl victory over fellow Scotland international Stewart Anderson|date=5 May 2022 |publisher=The Northern Scot|access-date=5 May 2022}}</ref>
Playing with Jason Banks, Stepney won the open pairs title at the 2025 World Indoor Bowls Championship, defeating Jason Greenslade and Robert Paxton in the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bowlsinternational.com/ambassador-cruise-line-world-indoor-bowls-championships-open-pairs-winners-crowned/|title=Ambassador Cruise Line World Indoor Bowls Championships open pairs winners crowned|publisher=Bowls International|accessdate=21 January 2025}}</ref>
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