Jill Hackland is a South African 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

Hackland won the

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in the women's pairs at the

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. In 2004, she won a

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with

Trish Steyn Patricia 'Trish' Ann Steyn (born 1952) is a South African international lawn bowler. Bowls career Steyn won the gold medal in the women's fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, the team consisted of Loraine Victor, Hester Bekker ...

and Loraine Victor in the women's triples. She won the 2013 singles at the

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bowling for the Umhlali Bowls Club.

References

Living people 1947 births South African female bowls players Bowls World Champions Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-bowls-bio-stub