Mr Kelvin Kerow OAM

It was no average afternoon at the lawn bowls ... a 37-year-old tearing off his shirt, mobbed by teammates before emerging with a big fist pump and then being chaired off. 

But Kelvin Kerkow was no average lawn bowler. He was the gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. And this was perhaps the most iconic moment in the sport's history. 

It all came down to the last bowl. The Aussie favourite needed to draw the shot. He let it roll. It came down to miollimetres. Two of them. A measure. But he did enough. Just. 

In his home country this was the career highlight, he said. Better than world titles and big events abroad. Better than anything else. This was the Kerkow moment. The ultimate retribution. 

Confined to a wheelchair by a debilitating illness in his youth, forced to spend long stints in hospital and still needing a walking stick to play, he had not only found a way to walk properly but had become one of the world's best. 

A Queensland representative from the age of 19 in 1989, he played a record 377 games for his State and 320 games and 12 years in Australian colours for countless titles across the globe. 

He was an inspiration and the face of a sport he continues to serves so generously in retirement. A Legend in the Bowls Australia Hall of Fameand now just the second lawn bowler in the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.