Elizabeth 'Betty' Mary Morgan MBE (born 1942) is a Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler. She was appointed an MBE in 2005.

Bowls career

Morgan made her Welsh debut in 1976 and won multiple Welsh national titles.

World Outdoor Championship

Morgan won the

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in the women's triples during the

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and a

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with

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Commonwealth Games

Morgan won a silver medal in the singles at the

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. She also competed in the fours at the

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and in the singles at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Atlantic Championships

In 1993 she won the fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships and four years later in her home country she won the singles bronze medal and the triples gold medal. A fourth medal was won in 2005 when she won the singles silver medal at the Championships.

British Isles

Morgan has won the British Isles Bowls Championships singles title three times in 1995, 1998 and 2003, a record only bettered by Irish bowler Margaret Johnston (bowls), Margaret Johnston. In addition to the three singles titles she has won ten other British Isles titles; pairs (1994, 1995, 1996, 2003 and 2011), triples (1990 & 2003), fours (1978, 1999 & 2011). The 2003 success created history because she was the first woman to win the singles, pairs and triples in the same year.

National

Outdoors, Morgan has won 26 Welsh National Bowls Championships. *singles - 1984, 1986, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2002 *pairs - 1980, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2019 *triples - 1989, 1999, 2002, 2009 *fours - 1977, 1983, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2014, 2016

References

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