Jason Belmonte

Jason Belmonte is one of the worlds leading Ten-pin bowlers. He was born in Orange, Australia, on 29th July 1983 and from Kindergarten to year 12, he was educated at Kinross Wolaroi School.

His parents own the Orange Ten Pin Bowl. Because of this Jason started rolling a ball at 18 months and he started competing at the age of three and won his first event at the age of four. At the age of five, Jason had a League Average of 117 and a high game of 179.

In 2000, Jason became the first Junior Australian to shoot 300 overseas and in the same year, he took out five Gold medals at the Junior National Championships. In 2001, he was selected in the Youth Australia team, and also held a place in this team in 2002 and 2004.

In 2001 Jason was the Australia Day Orange Junior Sportsperson of the year and he took out the Senior Award in 2002 along with the Orange Sportsperson of the Year award, which he repeated in 2003.

In 2002, Jason won one Gold, one Silver and two Bronze medals at the Commonwealth Championships in Scotland and a Silver medal at the WTBA World Youth Championships in Thailand. In that year, Jason was selected in the Australian Open men� team, where he remains to the present time.

2004 saw Jason take three gold, one silver and one bronze in the Asian Youth FIQ in Hong Kong and he followed this up in the World Youth FIQ titles in Guam with a gold in the Singles, a gold in all events and a silver in the World Tenpin Masters.

2004 also saw Jason compete in the AMF World Cup in Singapore where he was lead qualifier and never lost the lead in five days of qualifying events, finishing in 5th place after being knocked out in the quarter final. Jason won the very prestigious 2004 WBW Award, voted by the Board of Directors of the World Bowlers Writers Association.

To date in 2005, Jason has bowled 20 perfect 300 games and has appeared in his last 300 game on British television and Foxtel. He is one of only 16 bowlers in the world invited to compete in the World Masters in England where he finished in third place. In this event, Jason made history by bowling the first ever 300 game in the Matchroom World Masters Event.