James Pirret
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Born | 22 February 1915 | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 December 1976 | (aged 61)|||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Tuakau Bowling Club | |||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
National finals | Men's singles champion (1957) Men's pairs champion (1958) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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James "Ham" Pirret (22 February 1915 – 4 December 1976) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player.
At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the men's singles gold medal. In 1954 at the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver he won the silver medal in the men's singles. Pirret competed in the men's singles at his third consecutive British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958 at Cardiff, finishing in sixth place.
Pirret won two New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles representing the Tuakau Bowling Club: the men's singles in 1957; and the men's pairs (as skip), with C. J. Rogers, in 1958.
Pirret died on 4 December 1976, and his ashes were buried at Tuakau Cemetery.
- 1915 births
- 1976 deaths
- New Zealand male bowls players
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
- Bowls players at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Bowls players at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- 20th-century New Zealand people
- Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- New Zealand bowls biography stubs