Dot Jenkinson
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| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Red Cliffs Bowls Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dot Jenkinson was an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]World Championships
[edit]Jenkinson won the pairs gold medal with Lorna Lucas and the fours bronze medal with Joan Vaughan, Olive Rowe and Lorna Lucas, at the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington.[2]
Four years later she won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing. The two gold's were in the fours with Connie Hicks, Lorna Lucas and Merle Richardson and the team event (Taylor Trophy). The silver was in the pairs with Lucas.[3] [4]
National
[edit]She won six Australian National Bowls Championships in the fours and secured 22 Red Cliffs Bowls Club Championship wins in the singles.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Ladies to honour local bowls legend". Sunraysia Daily.