Scotland end disappointing Games with just one bowls medal

Scotland's bowlers and para-bowlers ended a disappointing week in hall three of the SEC Centre with just one medal.

The Para-mixed pairs of lead Mary Stevenson and her director Jim Aitken and skip Robert Barr and his director Sarah Jane Ewing won the sport's first gold on offer at the 2026 Commonwealth Games - hoping it would kick-start Scotland's time on the carpet.

By the final day of the Games, only the Para-women's pairs and Para-men's pairs were in with a sniff of the podium - but both lost in the bronze medal matches.

Up first on Sunday were Mary Wilson and Pauline Wilson against Malaysia. After losing the first set, the Scottish duo rallied in the second and had the chance to claim a vital four and move ahead 6-3 in the set.

However, they left an inviting target for Malaysian skip Jariah Zakaria, who skelped bowls out to lie two herself.

That was that for the Para-women's pair and they were replaced on rink four by Garry Brown and Stuart Sloan.

The Para-men's pair fell to a first set defeat against England, but produced a simply sensational showing in the second, claiming a morale-boosting five in the first end.

Their 9-1 win with an end to spare meant they carried the momentum into the tiebreaker against Joe Peplow and Kieran Rollings, but that only got them so far.

Lying for bronze, Scotland started playing positional bowls in an attempt to block Rolling's path to the shot off. But Rollings calmly used one of his own short bowls to nip in and steal the number one position.

Sloan went searching for it with his last bowl, but he was always off target.

They join Jason Banks in the men's singles, men's pair Paul Foster and Alex Marshall, Sophie McGrouther in the women's singles and the women's pair of Caroline Brown and Beth Riva in leaving their home Games with no medals.