Mary Price (bowls)
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Nationality | England |
Born | 27 April 1942 |
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Mary Price (born 27 April 1942) is a female former English international lawn bowler and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
She is from Farnham Common in Slough and played competitive cricket, badminton, squash, and hockey but achieved her greatest successes in bowls. After winning the National title in 1988 she became the first woman in England to win both the indoor and outdoor singles titles. She subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1989.[2] She gained a bronze medal in the triples at the 1986 Commonwealth Games but her best win was the singles title at the 1991 World Indoor Bowls Championships.[3]
Price also won a bronze medal in the pairs and silver medal in the fours at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and a bronze medal in the pairs at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and 1994 Commonwealth Games.[4] [5]
References
- ^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- English female bowls players
- Living people
- 1943 births
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Indoor Bowls World Champions
- Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games