title: Bob Middleton (bowls)
text: # Bob Middleton (bowls)
  
  Robert 'Bob' Middleton is a former Australian international lawn bowler.
  
  ## Bowls career
  
  ### World Championships
  
  Middleton won a singles silver medal, a pairs bronze medal with Don Woolnough and a team bronze at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg and eight years later won a bronze medal in the 1984 World Outdoor Championships in Aberdeen with bowls partner Kenny Williams.
  
  ### Club
  
  He was fourteen times Mitcham club champion and was a sale agent by trade.
  
  ### Awards
  
  He was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame.
  
  