Anna Pretorius is a South African former 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 ...
.
Pretorius won a
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
in the
Women's fours at the
1994 Commonwealth Games
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in
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
with
Colleen Grondein
Colleen Grondein is a former South African international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
Grondein won a gold medal in the Women's fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria with Anna Pretorius, Lorna Trigwell and Hester Bekker. It was the f ...
,
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)
Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
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