Annette Evans (born 28 May 1944) is a Scottish 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 ...

Bowls career

Evans won the Women's

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) champ ...

title in 1987 and subsequently won the singles at the

British Isles Bowls Championships The British Isles Bowls Championships is a tournament held between the champions of their respective nations, England Scotland, Wales, combined Ireland and more recently Guernsey and Jersey. It was first held in 1960 although the triples event did ...

in 1988. Her biggest accomplishment was winning gold in the fours during the

1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 1985 Women's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Reservoir Bowling Club in Preston, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia from 13 February to 4 March 1985. Merle Richardson of Australia won the Sylko Trophy (Singles Gold medal), Aust ...

with Sarah Gourlay, Elizabeth Christie and

Frances Whyte Frances Whyte is a former Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career Whyte won a gold medal in the fours at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne. Seven years later she won two more golds in both the triples an ...

. She also competed at the

1986 Commonwealth Games The 1986 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a 'Cho-fhlaitheis 1986) were held in Edinburgh, Scotland, between 24 July and 2 August 1986. They were the second Games to be held in Edinburgh. Thirty two of the eligible fifty nine countries (largel ...

alongside Gourlay, Whyte and Jen Menzies. Evans retired in 1990 from international competition.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Annette Scottish female bowls players Living people 1944 births Bowls World Champions Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland