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Mary Price
Personal information
Nationality England
Born (1942-04-27) 27 April 1942 (age 82)
Medal record
Women's indoor bowls
Representing  England
World Outdoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Auckland Women's fours
Silver medal – second place 1992 Ayr Women's fours
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Leamington Spa Women's fours
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Johannesburg Women's pairs
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1986 Edinburgh Women's fours
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Auckland Women's fours
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Victoria Women's pairs
World Indoor Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place 1991 Guernsey Women's singles

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

  1. ^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
  3. ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  4. ^ "profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  5. ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.