Audrey Frances Rutherford is a former international lawn bowler from Australia.

Bowls career

She won a

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

in the women's fours with Daphne Shaw,

Dorothy Roche Dorothy Edna Roche (1928 – 11 November 2021), was an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia. Bowls career Roche took up the sport of bowls in 1975. She won the triples gold medal and fours silver medal at the 1985 World Outdoor ...

and Marion Stevens at the

1990 Commonwealth Games The 1990 Commonwealth Games ( mi, 1990 Taumāhekeheke Commonwealth) were held in Auckland, New Zealand from 24 January – 3 February 1990. It was the 14th Commonwealth Games, and part of New Zealand's 1990 sesquicentennial celebrations. Partic ...

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

. Two years later she won a

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

in the singles at the

1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 1992 Men's Woolwich World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at Beach House Park, Worthing, England, from 8 to 23 August 1992. The 1992 Women's Henselite World Championship was held at the Northfield Bowling Complex in Ayr, Scotland ...

Ayr Ayr (; sco, Ayr; gd, Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. It is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire council area and the historic county town of Ayrshire. With a population ...

. She won four medals at the

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 ...

including two gold medals.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rutherford, Audrey Australian female bowls players Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian women Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living people)