Daphne Ann Shaw is a former international lawn bowls competitor for

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Bowls career

Shaw started bowling in 1977 and won the 1979 North Haven Club Championship. In 1990 she won a

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at the

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. In 1991 Daphne won the NSW Champion of Club Champions singles title and won a gold medal in the pairs and a silver in the singles at the

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. In 1996 she won the

in the fours and

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in the triples at the

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. She was inducted into Bowls NSW Hall of Fame in 2016 and in May 2021, she opened a new green at the New Haven Bowls Club, which is named after her.

Personal life

Daphne married her husband Colin in 1963 and has been the mentor for Karen Murphy.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Daphne Date of birth missing (living people) Australian female bowls players Bowls World Champions Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games 1943 births Living people 20th-century Australian women Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living people)