World Bowls: Enhanced international indoor event to replace World Cup
A new international indoor event will relace the sport’s World Cup from next year, World Bowls (WB) have declared.
From 2020, an enhanced World Bowls Indoor Championships will replace the existing World Cup, historically staged at Warilla, following confirmation from the international governing body of the sport.
The World Cup, in its current form, will cease to exist and instead amalgamate with the United Kingdom’s International Indoor Bowls Council’s (IIBC – which governs eight UK-based indoor associations) current Indoor Championships to form the newly-created World Bowls Indoor Championships.
WB has confirmed the event will continue to run annually in April but alternate the host venue between the UK and long-time hosts Warilla Bowls & Recreation Club, in NSW.
The English Indoor Bowling Association (a member of the IIBC) has agreed to host the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships next year, with a venue in England to be confirmed at a later date.
The event will consist of Men’s and Women’s Singles and Mixed Pairs disciplines.
Winners from the Australian Indoor Championships will continue to earn automatic qualification for this event and represent Australia on the world stage, as has occurred in the past, with the additional qualification for the new Mixed Pairs element of the event.
