Catherine Anton
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 May 1965 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Parkway BC Peterborough & District BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Catherine Ivy Anton (born 1965) married name Catherine Popple is a former English international lawn bowler.[2]
Bowls career[edit]
Anton represented England in the fours event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.[3][4][5]
In 1998 she represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and won a bronze medal in the fours event with Norma Shaw, Mandy Jacklin and Shirley Page.[6][7]
In 1999 she won the fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[8][9]
Anton is also an eleven times national champion representing Huntingdonshire, one singles, one pairs, one triples, four fours and four junior.[10]
She married fellow bowler Stuart Popple.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Athlete profile". 2006 Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Catherine Anton profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "THOSE WERE THE DAYS... Local sporting highlights from this week in years gone by". Peterborough News.
- ^ "KUALA LUMPUR 1998: Bronze Medallists". Commonwealth Games England. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ "'Johnston maintains dominance' (1999)". The Times. 29 March 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'For the Record' (1999)". The Times. 25 March 1999. p. 53. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
- ^ "Bowls: Leaders beat Brett, but can he topple Popple?". Peterborough News.