Alison Jayne Merrien (born 28 November 1974)
[ is an indoor bowls player from ]Saint Peter Port
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, Guernsey
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.
Bowls career
Indoors
Merrien won double gold in the women's singles defeating Karen Murphy and the mixed pairs with Simon Skelton the 2011 World Indoor Bowls Championship. She won a third medal eight years later in 2019 losing out to Julie Forrest
Julie Forrest (born 3 November 1968) is a Scottish bowls player.
Bowls career Outdoors
Julie has won three World Outdoor medals, a silver medal in the fours at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg and two bronze medals as ...
of Scotland in the final. In 2022, she finally claimed a third title when winning the mixed pairs with Paul Foster and also reached the women's singles final.
In the southern hemisphere equivalent the World Cup Singles she has won two titles in 2008 and 2012 and has finished runner up on three more occasions. In 2022, Merrien won the mixed pairs at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships
The World Bowls Indoor Championships is bowls event inaugurated in 2019 by the organisations known as World Bowls and the International Indoor Bowls Council (IIBC). It is contested annually between bowlers from national bowls organisations. Th ...
, partnering Stewart Anderson, they defeated Michael Stepney
Michael Stepney (born 1980) is a Scottish international indoor bowler.
Bowls career
He won the Scottish National Singles Championship in 2009 and the British Isles Singles Championship the following year. In 2017 he finished runner-up in the ...
and Claire Anderson in the final.
In addition she has claimed three IIBC singles titles in 2009, 2011 & 2015[
]
Outdoors
By virtue of winning her national title she qualified to represent Guernsey at the World Singles Champion of Champions The World Singles Champion of Champions is an event inaugurated in 2003 that is contested annually between bowlers who have won their respective national singles title.
The event was first held in 2003 at the Moama Bowling Club in Moama, Australia. ...
in 2007 where she defeated Siti Zalina Ahmad
Siti Zalina Ahmad (born 2 June 1979) is a Malaysian international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
Siti Zalina Ahmad is from Perak, in Malaysia and is one of only two women to have won two Commonwealth Games singles Gold medals. After watching a game ...
in the final to win the gold medal.
Awards
Merrien was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) for services to bowls in the 2012 New Year Honours
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,Ian Merrien
Ian Michael Merrien (born 1973) is a Guernsey international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
Merrien has represented Guernsey at three Commonwealth Games; in the singles at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, in the triples at the 2006 Commonwealth Games an ...
who is also a successful bowls player.
References
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Living people
Guernsey female bowls players
1974 births
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Indoor Bowls World Champions
People from Saint Peter Port