Carl Bottomley
Carl was inducted into the Queensland Hall of Fame on 17th March 2007. He still competes regularly on the Australian Tournament scene.
Below is a summary of his many achievements:
Australian Teams
- Represented Australia 6 times. 5 FIQ events and 1 World Cup
- 13 FIQ medals
- 9 Gold – including Asian Senior singles, World Youth Masters, Asian Youth Masters and 3 All Events
- 3 Silver
- 1 Bronze
- 3rd at the 1996 Bowling World Cup
State Teams
- Represented Queensland 8 times. 6 President Shield and 2 Rachuig
Major National Titles
- Twice won the South Pacific Classic
- Twice won the Junior South Pacific Classic
- Twice second in the South Pacific Classic
- 4 times won the Koolfoam Classic
- Twice won the Australian Open
- Second twice in the Australian Open
- Won the Melbourne Cup
- Second 3 times in the Melbourne Cup
- 3 times won the Queensland Open
- Twice won the Brisbane Cup
- Won the Australian Marathon
- Second twice in the Perth Cup
- Second twice in the Adelaide Cup
- Twice No 1 ranked Australian male bowler
State Events
- 5 time Redcliffe City Open Winner. Have finished in the top 5, 15 of 16 times
- 3 times Caboolture Open winner.
- 3 times Caboolture grand slam winner.
- Twice Sport Series overall winner.
- 3 times Queensland AMF points winner.
- Twice Capalaba Open winner
- 3 times Western Open Winner.
- Twice Browns Plains Open winner
- 3 times Pine Rivers Open winner
- Twice Hervey Bay Open winner.
300 games – 31
High 3 game series – 834
High 4 game series – 1095
