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Bowls at the 2026 Commonwealth Games – Mixed pairs B2–3

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ140774233 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bowls at the 2026 Commonwealth Games – mixed pairs B2-3 was held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow from 23 to 28 July. Six nations entered the event. Mary Stevenson and Robert Barr of Scotland won the gold medal, defeating England's Ron Homer and Sally-Ann Lewis-Wall on a tiebreaker in the final. Julie Thomas and Steffan James from Wales won the bronze medal.

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The top four advance to the knockout stage.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bowls at the 2026 Commonwealth Games – Mixed pairs B2–3” is bowls event. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bowls, Commonwealth and Games, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bowls, Commonwealth and Games is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140774233. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bowls at the 2026 Commonwealth Games – Mixed pairs B2–3” 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.