Sharon Sims
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Sharon Elmar Sims MNZM (born 24 May 1952) is a New Zealand lawn bowls player. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Jo Edwards in the women's pairs event. At the World Bowls Championships in 2000 she was a triples and fours champion, and in 2004 a pairs champion.[1]
In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sims was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to lawn bowls.[2] In 2013, she was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[3]
References
- ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^ Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
- ^ "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
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