Joan Hunt
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Atherley BC Farnborough BC & Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Joan Hunt is a former international lawn bowls competitor for England.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]In 1977 she won the silver medal in the fours at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing with Joan Sparkes, Margaret Lockwood and Mabel Darlington and also competed in the pairs.[2]
She won the 1969 & 1975 national 2 wood singles title and the 1975 national pairs[3] at the England Women's National Championships when bowling for Atherley BC and Hampshire.[4][5]
She was a member of Farnborough Bowling Club,[6] holding the office of Ladies President in 1966 & 1967. She was Club Champion three times and won the Ladies' Championship seven times between 1962 and 1972.
References
[edit]- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ ""Bowls." Times, 30 May 1977, p. 8". The Times. Times Digital Archives. 30 May 1977. p. 8.
- ^ "Bowls second title". Birmingham Daily Post. 19 August 1975. Retrieved 17 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "Bowls:Second title - 19 August 1975". Birmingham Daily Post - Birmingham, Warwickshire. 1975.
- ^ "JOHN'S TROPHY RECORDS" (PDF). Hampshire Bowls. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
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