Angela Boyd (born 1986) is a New Zealand international

lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

Bowls career

Angela's sister

Mandy Boyd Mandy Boyd (born 15 October 1991) is a New Zealand international lawn bowls player. Bowls career Mandy followed her sister Angela Boyd into the sport, and started playing in 2006 while at Napier Girls' High School. Boyd competed at the 2014 Co ...

is also an international bowler. She won two medals at the 2015

Asia Pacific Bowls Championships The Asia Pacific Bowls Championships formerly the Pacific Rim Championships was a bowls, lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Asia Pacific region. The event was inaugurated in 1985, and it was initially held ...

in Christchurch. Boyd has won four national titles. In 2016, she won a bronze medal in the fours at the

2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Burnside Bowling Club in Avonhead, Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Ch ...

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with

Katelyn Inch Katelyn Inch (born 19 August 1995) is a New Zealand international lawn bowler. Bowls career World Championships Inch was born in Rangiora and brought up in Oxford, New Zealand. She made her debut for New Zealand in 2015 and won a bronze medal ...

Val Smith Valerie Christine Smith (born 29 July 1965) is an international bowls, lawn bowler from New Zealand. Bowls career World Championships Smith won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Leamington Spa before winning three ...

and

Kirsten Edwards Kirsten Edwards née Griffin (born 1991) is a New Zealand international lawn bowler. Bowls career Edwards won the bronze medal in the fours at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch with Angela Boyd, Val Smith and Katelyn In ...

and a silver medal with

Jo Edwards Joanna Edwards (born 5 February 1970) is a New Zealand international lawn bowls competitor. She has won two world titles and three Commonwealth Games gold medals. Bowls career Outdoors At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along w ...

in the

pairs Concentration, also known as Memory, Shinkei-suijaku (Japanese meaning "nervous breakdown"), Matching Pairs, Match Match, Match Up, Pelmanism, Pexeso or simply Pairs, is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and tw ...

. In addition to her international success she has won the 2015 & 2016 pairs titles with her sister and five 'fours' titles (2011, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021) at the

New Zealand National Bowls Championships The New Zealand National Bowls Championships is organised by Bowls New Zealand. Bowls was introduced in New Zealand in 1861 but the first national championships were not held until 1914. Men's singles champions Men's pairs champions Men's fou ...

when bowling for the Burnside Bowls Club.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, Angela Living people New Zealand female bowls players 1986 births