The Nations Cup is YC&AC’s annual international festival of lawn bowls. From 1955 until at least 1991 when records from that period stop, the “International Lawn Bowls Trophy” (pictured below) was the prize.
The full list of winners as we know them follows after the photograph.
1955 Born in Japan
W.H. Helm, D.J. Helm, F.S. Harriss, G.E. Beatty
2000 Portugal
Taeko Fernandes, Limie Benevedes, Poy Fernandes
2001 Switzerland
Otto Moser, Patrick Niederhauser, Marcel Niederhauser
2002 United Asia
Cecil Baclay, Reiko Cooper, Nori Sequeira
2003 Japan
Ayako Fong, Noriko Walker, Junko Wilkinson
2004 Australia
Andrew Longfellow, Carmel O’Brien. Ray Sullivan
2005 Australia
Ray Sullivan, Virginia Longfellow, John Lewer
2006 Japan Residents
Zack Niederhauser, Yoko Lum, Satoko Wiley
2007 England
Stephen Hill, Liz Rayne, Gill Dale-Batters
2008 USA
Buddy Ferrie, Todd Wiley, Ignacio Lara
2009 Switzerland
Willi Holzer, Marcel Niederhauser, Patrick Niederhauser
2010 Japan Samurai
Seishi Yoda, Toshiharu Saito, Shinya Fujiwara
2011 Switzerland
Willi Holzer, Marcel Niederhauser, Hans Spiess
2012 India
Vinod Kumar, K. “Jiro” Pahlajrai, Satish Tandon
2013 Japan Ninja
Masumi Turney, Kazuko Yasuda, Shinya Fujiwara
2014 Japan Ninja
Masumi Turney, Kazuko Yasuda, Shinya Fujiwara
2015 India
I.M. Chugani, S. Tandon, W. Chiang
2016 Japan Ninja
Masumi Turney, Kazuko Yasuda, Shinya Fujiwara
2017 Ebi Fly
Toshi Arai, Saori Hamada, Ichiro Ito
2018 United Kingdom
Russell Brown, James Hegarty, Alex Hendy
2019 Typhoon Japan
Jun Adachi, Makoto Honjo, Seishi Yoda
2020 Black Thunder
Makoto Honjo, Shigemitsu Itoh, Toshi Kurosawa
2021 Hot Curry
Ishu Chugani, Shion Sakurai, Satish Tandon
2022 Black Thunder
Makoto Honjo, Toshi Kurosawa, Shigemitsu Itoh
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