| World Indoor Championships 1979 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st World Indoor Bowls Championships | |||
| Location |  Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire | ||
| Date(s) | 10 January - 14 January 1979. | ||
| Category | World Indoor Championships | ||
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The 1979 W.D. & H.O. Wills World Indoor Bowls Championship [1] was held at the Coatbridge indoor bowling club, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 10 to 14 January 1979.[1][2][3]
The championship was a men's singles event in which David Bryant won his first title defeating Jim Donnelly 21-14 after a final that lasted 23 ends.[4] The event was organised by the Monklands District Council with two round robin groups of five players. It was sponsored by tobacco industrialists W.D. & H.O. Wills.[1]
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- ^ "Setback for Blake's bid". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 12 January 1979. p. 8. Retrieved 12 February 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "David Bryant CBE". Somerset Bowls.