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Lorna Trigwell
Lorna Marie-Therese Trigwell, married name Lorna Smith, is a South African international lawn bowler. She is regarded as one of the leading players in the world after winning multiple medals. Bowls career Commonwealth Games Trigwell has won four Commonwealth Games medals at consecutive games. In 1994, she won a gold medal in the Women's fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria with Anna Pretorius, Colleen Grondein and Hester Bekker. It was the first time that South Africa had won a gold medal since 1958, following the return from their Anti-Apartheid Movement Commonwealth ban enforced in 1961. Four years later she repeated the feat in Kuala Lumpur when winning gold with Hester Bekker, Loraine Victor, and Trish Steyn at the Women's fours. She then won consecutive singles bronze medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. World Outdoor Championships She has won three World Outdoor Championship medals at consecutive championships. After thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 (cancelled due to World War II), have successively run every four years since. The Games were called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. Athletes with a disability are included as full members of their national teams since 2002, making the Commonwealth Games the first fully inclusive international multi-sport event. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men's and women's medal events and four years later they are the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men. Inspired by the Inter-Empire Championships, part of the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Pretorius
Anna Pretorius is a South African former international lawn bowler. Pretorius won a gold medal in the Women's fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria with Colleen Grondein, Lorna Trigwell and Hester Bekker. It was the first time that South Africa had won a gold medal since 1958, following the return from their Anti-Apartheid Movement The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), was a British organisation that was at the centre of the international movement opposing the South African apartheid system and supporting South Africa's non-White population who were persecuted by the policie ... Commonwealth ban enforced in 1961. Her daughter Linda Ralph won a New Zealand bowls national title after emigrating to that country. References Living people South African female bowls players Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Year of birth missing (living people) Medallist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Commonwealth Games
The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). It took place in Glasgow, Scotland, from 23 July to 3 August 2014. Glasgow was selected as the host city on 9 November 2007 during CGF General Assembly in Colombo, Sri Lanka, defeating Abuja, Nigeria. It was the largest multi-sport event ever held in Scotland with around 4,950 athletes from 71 different nations and territories competing in 18 different sports, outranking the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Over the last 10 years, however, Glasgow and Scotland had staged World, Commonwealth, European, or British events in all sports proposed for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, including the World Badminton Championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
The 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Lockleys Bowling Club in Adelaide, Australia, from 24 November to 9 December 2012. Some of the qualifying rounds were held at the nearby Holdfast Bowling Club in Glenelg North. Leif Selby won the men's singles Gold and the pairing of Alex Marshall and Paul Foster took the pairs Gold. Scotland also won the triples but Australia struck Gold in the fours and Leonard Trophy. In the women's events Australia were dominant winning the singles won by Karen Murphy, pairs, triples and Taylor Trophy. Only the Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... team managed to stop a complete clean sweep after claiming the fours. Medallists Results W.M.Leonard Trophy Taylor Trophy References {{World Outdoor Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish National Bowls Championships
The Scottish National Bowls Championships is one of the oldest bowls competitions in the world. In 1892 Mr James Brown of Sanquhar BC and Dr Clark of the Partick BC formed the Scottish Bowls Association and organised the first rink (fours) championship the following year at the Queen's Park Club, Glasgow (it was the first national championships and was known as the McEwan Cup). The first singles winner (originally called the Roseberry Trophy) was George Sprot and his son Bob Sprot was a three time champion and the first gold medal singles champion at the Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ... for Scotland. Men's singles champions Most singles titles Men's pairs champions Men's triples champions Men's fours champions Women's singles champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Peacock
Jo Peacock is a former South African international lawn bowler. Bowls career Peacock won a silver medal in the Women's pairs at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria with Lyn Dwyer. In 1995 she won the singles and pairs gold medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships The Atlantic Bowls Championships was a lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Atlantic region. The event was a qualifying event for the World Outdoor Bowls Championships until the 2021 announcement that it woul ..., the latter partnering Lorna Trigwell. References Living people South African female bowls players Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Year of birth missing (living people) Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-bowls-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / Ōtākaro flows through the centre of the city, with an urban park along its banks. The city's territorial authority population is people, and includes a number of smaller urban areas as well as rural areas. The population of the urban area is people. Christchurch is the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland. It is the major urban area of an emerging sub-region known informally as Greater Christchurch. Notable smaller urban areas within this sub-region include Rangiora and Kaiapoi in Waimakariri District, north of the Waimakariri River, and Rolleston and Lincoln in Selwyn District to the south. The first inhabitants migrated to the area sometime between 1000 and 1250 AD. They hunted moa, which led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish Steyn
Patricia 'Trish' Ann Steyn (born 1952) is a South African international lawn bowler. Bowls career Steyn won the gold medal in the women's fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, the team consisted of Loraine Victor, Hester Bekker and Lorna Trigwell. The following year in 1999, she won the fours gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships with Ellen Cawker, Bekker and Lorna Trigwell. Five years later she won another gold with Jill Hackland and Loraine Victor in the Women's triples at the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Leamington Spa Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Steyn, Trish Living people 1952 births South African female bowls players Bowls World Champions Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loraine Victor
Loraine Victor is a South African international lawn bowler. Bowls career In 1998 Victor was part of the fours team that won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. She also won a gold medal in the Women's Triples at the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Ayr and four years later repeated the achievement by winning another gold medal in the Women's Triples at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch. In 2007 she won the fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. She won the 2017 singles and two fours titles at the National Championships A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best team, indi ... bowling for the Wingate Park Bowls Club. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Victor, Loraine Living people South African female bowls players Bowls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuala Lumpur
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