Jo Edwards
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| Nationality | New Zealander | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 February 1970 Clatterbridge, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Joanna Edwards MNZM (born 5 February 1970) is a New Zealand former international lawn bowls competitor. She has won two world titles and three Commonwealth Games gold medals.
Bowls career
[edit]Outdoors
[edit]At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Sharon Sims in the women's pairs event.[1] She has twice won the gold medal at the World Outdoor Bowls Championships in the pairs events: in 2004 with Sharon Sims;[2] and in 2008 with Val Smith.
In 2014 she won a second Commonwealth Games gold medal after winning the women's singles in Glasgow.[3]
In 2016, she won a bronze medal at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch in the singles and a silver medal with Angela Boyd in the pairs.[4]
She was selected as part of the New Zealand team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland,[5] where she claimed a gold medal in the Singles.[6]
In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.[7]
In addition to World Bowls and Commonwealth Games success she has won five gold medals and (nine medals in total) at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships[8] and excelled at the 2015 APL (Australian Premier League), she was the only woman competing in the eight-team tournament featuring 24 of the world's top players and played alongside her countrymen Ali Forsyth and Shannon McIlroy to win the title at Club Pine Rivers.[9]
Indoors
[edit]Edwards has won six World Cup Singles titles (a women's record) with the latest success being in 2019. Previous wins were in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2017.[10]
Honours
[edit]In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Edwards was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to lawn bowls.[11]
Retirement
[edit]Edwards announced her retirement from international bowls in November 2020.[12]
References
[edit]- ↑ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ↑ "Bowls: Women's four win but Castle suffers two losses in singles". New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 10 November 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
- ↑ "Edwards wins bowls gold medal". RNZ. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- ↑ "2016 World Bowls Championship Finals". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ↑ "Bowls: New Zealand team named for Commonwealth Games". New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ↑ "NZ lawn bowler Jo Edwards wins gold". RNZ. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- ↑ "Blackjacks Selected for World Championships 2020". Bowls New Zealand. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- ↑ "Results Portal". Bowls Australia. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
- ↑ Landells, Steve (17 November 2015). "Lawn bowls: Jo Edwards stars in Blackjacks triumph". New Zealand Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ↑ "World Cup indoor singles – Day 9". Bowls International. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 2014. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ↑ "New Zealand bowls legend Jo Edwards announces her retirement". Stuff NZ. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
External links
[edit]- Jo Edwards at Bowls New Zealand (archived)
- Jo Edwards at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Jo Edwards at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Jo Edwards at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Joanna Edwards at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Joanna Edwards at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- 1970 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female bowls players
- Commonwealth Games bowls players for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls World Champions
- Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- People from Clatterbridge