Patricia Smith (bowls)
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| Born | 1920 Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2017 (aged 96–97) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Murwillumbah BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Patricia Josephine Smith (1920–2017) was an Australian international lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Pat was part of the fours team that won a silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[2] She had previously competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.
She also won a gold medal and a silver medal, at the 1985 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in Tweed Heads, New South Wales[3][4] and bowled for New South Wales from 1972-1987.
Awards
[edit]She was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and the Member of the Order of Australia in 1989 for services to bowls.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pat Smith profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 90. Pan Books Ltd. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-330-31364-9.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Pat embodied Games spirit". Tweed Daily News.
Categories:
- Australian female bowls players
- 1920 births
- 2017 deaths
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Members of the Order of Australia
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- People from the Northern Rivers
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen