Katherine Rednall (born 7 January 1996) is an English lawn and indoor bowler from

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. She is record five times women's world indoor singles champion.

Bowls career

Indoors

Rednall became the youngest ever winner of a World Indoor Bowls title after she won the 2014 World Indoor Bowls Championship Women's Singles at the age of just 18. Rednall reached the final of the 2015 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing out to Laura Thomas in the decider. Rednall experienced further success after winning the Mixed Pairs title in 2016 with bowls partner

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. She won a second singles title in

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after defeating

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in the final and a third singles title during the

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defeating

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in the final. During the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship she was seven months pregnant and performed well reaching the women's final, the mixed pairs semi final and was also the first woman to reach the Open singles quarter final. The following year during the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, she won a record breaking fourth singles title. At the 2023 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Rednall won her fifth women's singles to extend her record, she fought back after losing the first set to defeat Ceri Ann Glen in the tie break set.

Outdoors

She was selected as part of the English team for the

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on the

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where she won a

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in the

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with

and Sian Honnor. In 2019, she won two bronze medals at the

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. In 2020, she was selected for the

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in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the

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. In 2023, she was selected again as part of the team to represent England at the

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. She participated in the women's singles and the women's triples events. In the singles, Rednall won her group before reacing the semi final where she lost to Kelly McKerihen.

Personal life

Rednall is the daughter of England international John Rednall. She studied for a degree in fashion and textiles at the University of Essex and enjoys playing the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rednall, Katherine English female bowls players Living people 1996 births People from Stowmarket Indoor Bowls World Champions Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games