Betty Morgan (bowls)
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| Nationality | Welsh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 September 1942 Llandrindod Wells, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Llandrindod Wells BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Elizabeth 'Betty' Mary Morgan MBE (born 1942) is a Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler. She was appointed an MBE in 2005.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Morgan made her Welsh debut in 1976 and won multiple Welsh national titles.
World Outdoor Championship
[edit]Morgan won the bronze medal in the women's triples during the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and a silver medal with Caroline Taylor in the women's pairs at the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Leamington Spa.[2]
Commonwealth Games
[edit]Morgan won a silver medal in the singles at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She also competed in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and in the singles at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[3]
Atlantic Championships
[edit]In 1993 she won the fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships and four years later in her home country she won the singles bronze medal and the triples gold medal.[4][5] A fourth medal was won in 2005 when she won the singles silver medal at the Championships.[6]
British Isles
[edit]Morgan has won the British Isles Bowls Championships singles title three times in 1995, 1998 and 2003, a record only bettered by Irish bowler Margaret Johnston. In addition to the three singles titles she has won ten other British Isles titles; pairs (1994, 1995, 1996, 2003 and 2011), triples (1990 & 2003), fours (1978, 1999 & 2011).[7] The 2003 success created history because she was the first woman to win the singles, pairs and triples in the same year.
National
[edit]Outdoors, Morgan has won 26 Welsh National Bowls Championships.[8]
- singles - 1984, 1986, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2002
- pairs - 1980, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2019
- triples - 1989, 1999, 2002, 2009
- fours - 1977, 1983, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2014, 2016
References
[edit]- ^ "Betty Morgan biography". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Betty Morgan on world titles and 40 years playing bowls". BBC.
- ^ "Athlete profile". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Hawes and Price take title for England'". The Times. 27 August 1997. p. 39. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Price savours singular feat'". The Times. 3 September 1997. p. 46. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2005 Atlantic Rim Games". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 January 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
- ^ "WBA Handbook" (PDF). Welsh Bowls.
- Living people
- 1942 births
- Welsh female bowls players
- People from Llandrindod Wells
- Sportspeople from Powys
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games