LCongresbury bowler Anthony Page is an England champion after winning an indoor tournament in Nottingham last weekend.
Ant, who lives in Worle, won the Disability Bowls England National Single
s for Non-classified members at Nottingham at his first attempt.
He won three tough rounds before winning overall in the fourth round 19-13.
“The last round was nip and tuck at first, then I managed to get ahead in the last few ends,” said Ant, aged 45.
He was brought up in Wolverhampton and first started bowling at age 11 on crown greens.
“My father got me into it. My four uncles played too,” said Ant.
“It was my life. It was everything I did, six nights a week from April to September.
“I got to county standard and played for Staffordshire at junior level.”
He started bowling again in 2017 when he joined Congresbury, and in 2018 won three of the club’s singles titles.
Ant, who works in a supermarket bakery, was born with a condition called scoliosis – curvature of the spine – which is painful at times.
