Doubles Golds & Individual Bronzes as Hadley & Verity complete the European Championship of Champions 2024!

Doubles Golds & Individual Bronzes as Hadley & Verity complete the European Championship of Champions 2024!

After he stunning defence of last years Mixed Doubles Golds, Hadley & Verity bowled through the second singles qualifications to lead both the men’s and women’s qualification tables, Hadley with 11,740 sgls. A / 1,901 dbls./ 1,835 sgls. B = 5,476 tot. / 228.2 avg. and Verity 1,701 / 1,762 / 1,720 =5,183 / 216.

Into the top-12 cut, which saw both safely into the Top – 4 semi-finals, where Hadley was unfortunately defeated by Adam Andersson (SWE) 1 – 2 and Verity defeated by Hannah Masterson (IRE) 1 – 2 also.

Two more medals though in this years successful ECC!  A pair of Mixed Doubles 🥇🥇 Golds and two Individual 🥉🥉Bronzes!


Team England athletes Hadley Morgan and Verity Crawley have repeated last year’s accomplishment in Berlin to win their SECOND (and consecutive) Mixed Doubles Gold Medal, at the European Championship of Champions Cup in Bratislava.

BTBA Chairman Geoff Brown was delighted to celebrate the news, telling us:

”It’s Gold for Verity & Hadley!  Another fantastic performance in defending their ECC mixed doubles title.
Very well done winning in style with a fantastic score. You did us all proud.” – Geoff

In a tremendous display of bowling, Hadley and Verity both followed each other with broadly similar scores, with the last 2 or 3 games being all that really separated them, Hadley finishing 222/278/285 for a total 1,901 (237.6avg.) and Verity 203/224/238 for 1,762 (220.2) and a Doubles total 3,663 (228.9 avg)!

Hadley & Verity finished a sizeable +188 ahead of second place Slovakia, who finished on 3,475 (217.2) and third placed Sweden 3,468 (216.8)