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Joyce Lindores
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Birth name
| Joyce Scott
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Nationality
| British (Scottish)
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Born
| 2 May 1944
[1]
Galashiels
,
Selkirkshire
, Scotland
[2]
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Died
| 18 June 2017
(2017-06-18)
(aged 73)
Melbourne
, Australia
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Club
| Ettrick Forest
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Joyce Scott Lindores
(2 May 1944 ? 18 June 2017) was a Scottish international indoor and
lawn bowler
.
Bowls career
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Lindores won the Women's singles at the
1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship
defeating
Margaret Johnston
in the final.
[3]
Three years later she won the pairs gold medal with
Margaret Letham
at the
1998 Commonwealth Games
.
[4]
The pair then won the pairs title at the
2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
in
Moama
,
Australia
.
In 2005 she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the
Atlantic Bowls Championships
in Bangor, previously she had won a triples bronze in 1997 and pairs gold in 1999.
[5]
She also won the
Scottish National Bowls Championships
singles title in 1988 and 1997 and the pairs in 1993 bowling for Ettrick Forest.
[6]
Lindores remained in
Melbourne
after the
2006 Commonwealth Games
held there.
[1]
She died on 18 June 2017 in Melbourne.
[7]
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