Jayne Roylance
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Born | Fakenham, Norfolk, England | 8 October 1947|||||||||||||||||
Died | 3 November 2018[1] | (aged 71)|||||||||||||||||
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Club | County Arts Bowls Club (Norwich) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jayne Elizabeth Roylance (née Ward) (8 October 1947– 3 November 2018) was a lawn bowls international for England.[2]
Bowls career
[edit]Roylance won a silver medal in the women's triples with Norma Shaw and Barbara Fuller during the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland.[3]
Two years later she won a bronze medal in the pairs with Mary Price at the Commonwealth Games[4] and four years later Roylance represented England in the fours event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.[5][6][7]
In addition she has also won three National titles and one national competition representing Norfolk.[8] The fours in 1985,[9] the two wood singles in 1988[10] and the triples in 1989[11]
Family
[edit]Her brothers Chris Ward and David Ward were both international players.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Obituary". Bowls England.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
- ^ "Outside Ena snatches title". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 9 August 1985. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Loses in last four to international". Hinckley Times. 26 August 1988. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Rising star is easy winner". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 10 August 1989. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Norfolk's former England star Jayne Roylance dies at the age of 71". Eastern Daily Press. 8 November 2018.