Betty Stubbings
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Nationality | British (English) |
Sport | |
Sport | Lawn bowls |
Club | Pickering BC and Yorkshire (outdoor) Ryedale (indoor) |
Medal record |
Betty Stubbings was an England international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Stubbings was an England International from 1978 until 1992.[2]
In 1980, she took part in the world championship qualifier at the Whitnash Bowls Club for the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Canada.[3] After qualifying for the 1981 championships she won two gold medals in the fours with Eileen Fletcher, Mavis Steele, Gloria Thomas and Irene Molyneux and the team event (Taylor Trophy) at the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto. Four years later she won a bronze medal in the fours.
Stubbings also won two bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games[4] and won the National Title in 1977.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "MINUTES" (PDF). Bowls England.
- ^ "Top bowlers at ladies' championship". Banbury Guardian. 19 June 1980. Retrieved 23 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "Wigton struggle to beat Avenue". Birmingham Daily Post. 12 August 1977. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Categories:
- English female bowls players
- 2015 deaths
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Bowls World Champions
- Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- British bowls biography stubs