IPC WORLD BLIND BOWLS MALAYSIA 2004

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NEWS FROM KUALA LUMPUR

This was written while we were in Kuala Lumpur from the hotel lobby. We had many difficulties getting the information onto this web page as the computers there were not very well maintained.

2004/05/27

We are leaving for the airport now. We will be flying Air Canada along with Vivian Berkeley and her director Don Mayne from Kitchener Ontario. We are going via Hong Kong and coming back via Tokyo. I will be playing in men singles and also will be playing mixed pairs We will be giving you results directly from Kuala Lumpur.

2004/06/07

Well, we are here in Kuala Lumpur now and have been for several days. We have been getting many crashes on the computer system here and have lost all of our entries on this page. Let's try to summarize quickly.

We got here last Saturday May 29th totally exhausted from a 25 hour flight. Started unofficial practice on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. official practice was Thursday, Friday with opening ceremonies on Friday night. Mixed pairs were played Saturday. Sunday and Monday and results are as follows:

MIXED PAIRS

Ron and Vivian vs New Zealand - won 26 to 4
Ron and Vivian vs Malaysia - tied 11 all
Ron and Vivian vs Malaysia - won 17 to 10
Ron and Vivian vs South Africa lost 15 to 7

Ron and Vivian won the Bronze medal against another Canadian team Heather Green and Bob Giesbrecht 25 - 2.

Bob and Heather won vs Malaysia/Hong Kong 9 - 8
Bob and Heather lost vs Malaysia 4-16
Bob and Heather won vs Malaysia 14 - 12

Bob and Heather won 15-10 vs England

Iris Ferguson of Canada and Alan Lyne of England paired up and took the Gold Medal in the B3 classification.

SINGLES

2004/06/08

Ron lost to New Zealand 21 - 6
Ron lost to Malaysia 21 - 2

2004/06/09

Heather Green lost 7 to 21 country unavailable
Vivian Berkeley lost 17 - 21 country unavailable
Iris Ferguson lost details unavailable

2004/06/10

Ron won 21 - 17 against Malaysia
Bob Giesbrecht lost 7 - 21 against Malaysia
Vivian Berkeley won 21 - 11 country unavailable
Heather Green lost 10 - 21 country unavailable
Iris Ferguson won 21 - 13 country unavailable

Ron plays his last game tomorrow against England, and it does not appear that we will make the finals in singles.
Bob Giesbrecht is certain not to make the finals.
Heather Green is certain not to make the finals
Vivian Berkeley might make the finals fighting for bronze.

2004/06/11.

Bob Giesbrecht lost 2-21 against Malaysia
Heather Green lost 10-21 country unavailable
Vivian Berkeley won 21-5 country unavailable
Iris Ferguson won - results unavailable

2004/06/12

Vivian Berkeley is playing in the finals for the bronze later today.
Iris Ferguson is playing her last two games today. and Has a good chance for a medal.

Keep your fingers crossed.

2004/06/13

Yesterday in the ladies B1 finals Vivian Berkeley won against Malaysia 21 - 17.
Iris Ferguson won against Wales score unavailable

Canada is coming home with 2 more bronze medals.

2004/06/14

The closing banquet last night was the best one I have experienced in all my competitions.

Going home later today via Japan will arrive Trudeau International Airport about 10:35 PM Monday night Montreal time.

OFFICIAL SCORES

CANADA

Heather Green and Bob Giesbrecht

Round 1 - Malaysia/Hong Kong
Score 9 - 8
Points 2 - +1

Round 2 - Malaysia
Score 4 - 16
Points 0 - -12

Round 3
Bye

Round 4 - Malaysia
Score 14 - 12 +2
Points 4 - -9

Round 5 - England
Score 15 - 10 +5
Points 6 - -4
Total points 6 with a –4

Section Winners – Malaysia
Section Runners-Up – Canada

CANADA

Ron Pelletier and Vivian Berkeley

Round 1 - New Zealand/Malaysia
Score 26 - 4
Points 2 - +22

Round 2 - Malaysia
Score 11 - –11
Points 1 - +22

Round 3
Bye

Round 4 - Malaysia
Score 17 - 10 +7

Round 5 - South Africa
Score 7 - 15
Points 0 - -8

Total Points 5 +21

Bronze Medal Playoff
Canada vs Canada

Score 25 - 2
Berkeley/Pelletier over Giesbrecht/Green

SINGLES

Iris Ferguson

8-21 against Tang Shun Lee Hong Kong
21-13 Zainab abd Rahim Malaysia
1--21 Rose Crean Wales
21-17 Monica Gibbs Wales
21-15 Mahsuri Mansor Malaysia
Iris wins abronze medal

Heather Green

7-21 against Claire Simmons
10-21 Norhayati Sarnoh Malaysia
10-21 Maridah Mukri Malaysia

Vivian Berkeley

17-21 Tammy Smith South Africa
21-12 Sumitha Ramasamy Malaysia
21-5 Suhaila Mustapa Malaysia
Bronze medal game
21-16 Norhayati bt Sarnoh
Vivian wins bronze

Ron Pelletier

6-21 against David Monk New Zealand
2-21 against Malaysia
21-17 against Malaysia
21-19 Eric Gallagher England

Bob Giesbrecht

8-21 against Sk Lau Hong Kong
10-21 against Malaysia
7-21 against Malaysia
2-31 Dion Van Zyl South Africa