Daphne Shaw
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| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daphne Ann Shaw is a former international lawn bowls competitor for Australia.[1][2]
Bowls career
Shaw started bowling in 1977 and won the 1979 North Haven Club Championship.[3]
In 1990 she won a gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. In 1991 Daphne won the NSW Champion of Club Champions singles title and won a gold medal in the pairs and a silver in the singles at the Asia Pacific Championship. In 1996 she won the gold medal in the fours and silver medal in the triples at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide.[4]
She was inducted into Bowls NSW Hall of Fame in 2016.[5]
Personal life
Daphne married her husband Colin in 1963 and has been the mentor for Karen Murphy.[3]
References
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Athletes' Profile: Lawn Bowls". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ a b "Lawn bowls golden girl still keen as ever". The Senior.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Daphne Shaw earns Bowls NSW Hall of Fame induction". Wauchope Gazette.
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