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2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship

world Championship bowls event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ28135357 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Burnside Bowling Club in Avonhead, Christchurch, New Zealand, from 29 November to 11 December 2016.

There were eight events that determined the 2016 world champions, the men's singles, doubles, triples and fours and the women's singles, doubles, triples and fours.

Editorial summary

“2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship” enters the record as world Championship bowls event. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Outdoor and Bowls can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Outdoor and Bowls.
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Why this record matters

“2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, World, Outdoor and Bowls provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28135357. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.