Barbara Mary Cameron (born 16 April 1962) is a Northern Irish 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 ...

and bowls coach.

Bowls career

International

In 1993, she won the pairs gold medal with

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at the inaugural

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. Two years later she won the pairs bronze medal at the Atlantic Championships. She competed for Northern Ireland in the women's pairs event at the

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 ev ...

where she won a bronze medal.

National

In 2001, Cameron won the singles crown at the

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, bowling for Ballymena BC. In 2022, she won the triples title.

Coaching

Cameron was selected as a coach for the Northern Ireland team for the

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on the

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. Cameron was awarded the

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(BEM) in the

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for services to lawn bowls in Northern Ireland.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Barbara 1962 births Living people Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland People from Coalisland Female lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Recipients of the British Empire Medal Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games