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Kelly Packwood

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Kelly Packwood
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
Born (1986-08-10) 10 August 1986 (age 38)
Newport, Wales
Sport
Sportindoor and lawn bowls
ClubPontyfelin (outdoors)
Torfaen (indoors)
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking34 (August 2024)
Medal record
Representing  Wales
Welsh Nationals
Gold medal – first place 2009 pairs
Gold medal – first place 2016 triples

Kelly Packwood (born 1986) is a Welsh international lawn & indoor bowler.[1]

Bowls career

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In 2012, she won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title with Judith Wason.[2]

Kelly represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and only just missed out on a bronze medal losing out to South Africa in the bronze medal play off in the Women's triples with Kathy Pearce and Lisa Forey.[1]

Her best performance indoors was reaching the semi-finals of the 2013 World Indoor Bowls Championship.[3]

Personal life

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Her twin sister is fellow international bowler Kerry Packwood.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  2. ^ "HK Classic winners Women's pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Alison Merrien reached women's final at World Indoor Bowls". BBC Sport. 23 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Bowls: Wales put faith in teenagers". The Telegraph. 7 February 2004.