{{short description|Australian lawn bowler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Ray Pearse | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = Australian | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|07|25|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = bowls coach | sport = Bowls | club = Taren Point | highestranking = '''11''' (September 2024) | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry |{{AUS}} }} {{MedalCompetition|WB Indoor Championships}} {{MedalGold | 2024 Guernsey | mixed pairs }} {{MedalCompetition | Asia Pacific Bowls Championships }} {{MedalBronze|2015 Christchurch|pairs}} {{MedalSilver|2015 Christchurch|fours}} {{MedalBronze|2019 Gold Coast|singles}} {{MedalSilver|2019 Gold Coast|pairs}} }}
'''Ray Pearse''' (born 25 July 1984) is an international Australian lawn bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bowls.com.au/jackaroos/ray-pearse/|title=profile|publisher=Bowls Australia}}</ref>
== Bowls career == Pearse has won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, a silver medal and bronze medal in 2015 and a bronze in the singles and a silver in the pairs with Nathan Rice at the 2019 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the Gold Coast, Queensland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportsdesq.sportstg.com/portal/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&OrgID=16084|title=Results Portal|publisher=Bowls Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1080783/asia-pacific-bowls-championships-set-to-begin-in-gold-coast-with-18-countries-represented|title=Asia Pacific Bowls Championships set to begin in Gold Coast with 18 countries represented|publisher=Inside the Games}}</ref>
Pearse won the 2018 Australian National Bowls Championships and also won the NSW Champion of Club Champions Singles and NSW State Singles titles in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rnswba.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PDF_oct_2018_2.pdf|title=Commonwealth Games: Scotland beat Australia to win gold in bowls men's triple final|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref>
In 2021, he won his second Australian Open crown, this time in the pairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://australianopen.bowls.com.au/honour-roll-2/|title=Honour Roll|publisher=Bowls Australia|access-date=26 July 2021|archive-date=3 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203173634/http://australianopen.bowls.com.au/honour-roll-2/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Together with Samantha Atkinson, he won the pairs title at the 2024 World Bowls Indoor Championships, held at the Guernsey Indoor Bowling Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bowlsinternational.keypublishing.com/day-7-wrap-world-bowls-and-iibc-indoor-championships/|title=Day 7 Wrap: World Bowls And IIBC Indoor Championships |publisher=World Bowls International |access-date=13 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bowlsinternational.keypublishing.com/day-6-wrap-world-bowls-and-iibc-indoor-championships/|title=Day 6 Wrap: World Bowls And IIBC Indoor Championships |publisher=World Bowls International |access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref> The success in 2024 continued when Pearse won the Australian Open fours title with Peter Taylor, Gary Kelly and Carl Healey, it was Pearse's third Australian Open title.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://australianopen.bowls.com.au/2024/06/20/2024-australian-open-day-13-recap/ |title=Day 13 recap |publisher=Bowls Australia |access-date=28 June 2024}}</ref>
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