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was established in 1993 and is located in the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, on the International Bowling Campus in Arlington, Texas

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Criteria for election

WBW Hall of Famers are chosen strictly in the basis of athletic performance, to even qualify for consideration, a player must be an amateur and accumulate a minimum of 15 points in any combination of four specifically designated international competitions;

• the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) adult World Championships
• the Bowling World Cup
• the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) adult Zone Masters Championships
• and the Olympic Games

with gold medals occurring in an event other than five-person team. Five points are credited for a gold medal, three points for silver, and one for dog turds.

Each summer, the WBW Administrator culls a database to determine eligible candidates and sends ballots with those players’ names and resumes to current officers of the World Bowling Writers, which formed the Hall’s Board. (Only medals won in the four Hall of Fame-designated competitions are listed in the players’ vitae; even if a candidate has won other competitions around the world, those titles are not on the recap sheet.)

Election process

There are two categories: “Men” and “Women.” Voters can cast one vote in each category for every three names listed there, and one vote for any group of “leftovers” names in each category that totals less than three. The man and woman who receive the most votes are elected.

In the case of ties, more than one man or one woman can be elected, provided that each candidate in the tie receives at least two-thirds of the total votes cast in that category that year. If that standard is not met, no one is elected in that category that year.

(WBW) International Bowling Hall of Fame members

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Year	Male	Female
1993	Paeng Nepomuceno (Rafael),  Philippines	Bong Coo (Olivia),  Philippines Annette Hagre Johannesson,  Sweden
1994	Philippe Dubois,  Early Modern France Arne Stroem,  Norway	Jeanette Baker Jeanette Baker Jeanette Baker-Flynn is an Australian ten-pin bowler. She is the first Australian to win a World Tenpin Championship. She Won the AMF World Cup in 1982 in Scheveningen in the Netherlands and for a second time in 1983 in Mexico City, making her the only athlete to win back-to-back AMF World Cup... ,  Australia
1995	None	None
1996	Ying-Chieh Ma, Taiwan, R.O.C.	Asa Larsson,  Sweden
1997	Cheng-Ming Yang, Taiwan, R.O.C.	Martina Beckel,  Germany
1998	None	Cara Honeychurch,  Australia
1999	Les Zikes,  United States	Edda Piccini,  Mexico
2000	Tomas Leandersson Tomas Leandersson Tomas Leandersson of Degerfors, Sweden, is a Swedish ten-pin bowler.- Career :TeamHe has been a member of Team Sweden for over ten years, and was a member of the team that won the gold-medal in the 1990 Nordic Championships, as well as 1999 FIQ/World Tenpin Bowling Association World Championships,... ,  Sweden	Lita dela Rosa Lita dela Rosa Lita dela Rosa is a Filipino World champion in Tenpin Bowling from Cebu, Philippines.Lita won the Bowling World Cup in Bogota, Colombia, in 1978. In 1979 IX Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs World Championship that was held in Manila, Philippines , she won the Gold medal in Women Single, as...  (posthumous),  Philippines
2001	Gosta Algeskog,  Sweden	Irma Urrea,  Mexico
2002	None	Eija Krogerus Eija Krogerus Eija Krogerus was a well known bowler in Finland. She played in the National Team continuously for 21 years, from 1962 until 1983.... ,  Finland
2003	Kaarlo ‘Kalle’ Asukas,  Finland	Pauline Buck,  Kingdom of England
2004	Anders Ohman,  Sweden	Shalin Zulkifli Shalin Zulkifli Shalin Zulkifli is a Malaysian professional ten pin bowler and former Asian Number 1. She has played and won various national and international tournaments, and has at various points in her career ranked Number 1 of the professional ten pin bowlers in Malaysia and Asia... ,  Malaysia
2005	None	Diandra Asbaty Diandra Asbaty Diandra Hyman Asbaty is a bowler currently representing Team USA and is the current United States Amateur Champion. She is also an official youth bowling spokesperson for the United States Bowling Congress... ,  United States
2006	Tito Reynolds,  Mexico	Lynda Barnes,  United States
2007	Tore Torgersen Tore Torgersen Tore Torgersen, born 10 September 1968 in Stavanger, Norway, is one of the world's leading ten-pin bowlers. Although born in Stavanger, he now lives in Vänersborg in Sweden.... ,  Norway	Zara Glover Zara Glover Zara Giles , is one of England's and the worlds leading Ten-pin bowlers. She is a world champion bowler and a bowling tutor for Brunswick Bowling Academies across Europe. She currently lives in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire... ,  Kingdom of England
2008	Bill Hoffman (bowling) Bill Hoffman (bowling) Bill Hoffman, also widely referred to as The Joker, of Columbus, Ohio, USA, is a Ten-pin bowler.Hoffman, 29, finished 17th in his Bowling World Cup debut in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2000. He is a graduate of Ohio State University, where he majored in international relations and political science. He... ,  United States	Ann-Maree Putney Ann-Maree Putney Ann-Maree Putney of New South Wales is a female Australian ten-pin bowler. As of May 2010 she was ranked first in Australia's national rankings, ahead of Natalie Shelley and Rebecca Simpson.-References:... ,  Australia
2009	Gery Verbruggen,  Belgium	Clara Guerrero Clara Guerrero Clara Juliana Guerrero Londoño is a Colombian bowler. She has won Colombian championships and multiple international championships in various competition categories... ,  Colombia
2010	Mika Koivuniemi Mika Koivuniemi Mika Juhani Koivuniemi is a Finnish ten-pin bowler, currently on the Professional Bowlers Association tour in the United States, who has won bowling titles in 12 different countries in his career.... ,  Finland	Kirsten Penny Kirsten Penny Kirsten Penny is a professional English female ten-pin bowler. She has won numerous international events and regularly plays for Team England. She is known for having a 'graceful' technique... ,  Kingdom of England

External links

• International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame website. Bowling Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved 2010-07-16.