Julie Saunders
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1962 Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bournemouth IBC (indoors) Poole Park (outdoors) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Julie Saunders married name Julie Leake, is an English female international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Saunders won the English National title in 2005 representing Hampshire.[2][3] By winning the National title she represented England at the 2006 World Singles Champion of Champions event in Christchurch, New Zealand where she won the gold medal defeating Julie Keegan in the final.[4][5]
In 2011 she won the fours gold medal and the triples silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[6] In 2022, she won the champion of champions title at the 2022 Bowls England National Finals.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Saunders is a sports coach at Bryanston School, near Blandford Forum and married fellow bowler Roy Leake (a former fours National finalist) in Las Vegas during 2012.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Julie snaps up English singles title". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
- ^ "Champion of Champion finals". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ "Memory Lane Julie Leake". Bowls England. 29 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "2022 National Championships". Bowls England. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
- ^ "East Dorset bowling couple to wed after 23-year engagement". Daily Echo.
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