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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 June 1937 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 June 2009 (aged 72) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Norton BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Norma Shaw MBE (1937-2009), born near Wakefield, was an English international indoor and lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]World Championship
[edit]Norma won twelve World Outdoor Bowls Championship medals. The success started with two gold medals and a bronze medal at the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto. Four years later she won a silver medal and another bronze at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship followed by two more silvers at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. Norma then competed in her fourth and fifth successive championships at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship securing a bronze in both. Her final appearance was at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Moama where she won a bronze in the triples and finished with a gold medal in the team event.[2]
Commonwealth Games
[edit]Norma represented England at four Commonwealth Games winning four medals from 1982 until 1998.[3][4][5]
World Indoor Bowls Championship
[edit]Norma also won the 1997 World Indoor Bowls Championship held in Llanelli.[6]
Atlantic Championships
[edit]Norma won five medals Atlantic Bowls Championships including a singles gold medal at the 1993 inaugural tournament in Florida.[7][8][9][10]
National
[edit]Norma won eight National Championships bowling for Durham.[11] Theyincluded the singles in 1998, the pairs in 1980 and 1989,[12] the triples in 1982[13] and the fours in 1977.[14]
Norma was the first woman to break into the male dominated televised tournaments. She died in June 2009.[15]
Recognition
[edit]Shaw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1985 Birthday Honours for services to bowls.[16]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ↑ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ↑ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ↑ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ↑ ""Shaw turns tables for final reward." Times [London, England] 21 Apr. 1997". The Times.
- ↑ "'Shaw strikes gold'". The Times. 25 October 1993. p. 28. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.[dead link]
- ↑ "'Guernsey finally falter". The Times. 1 November 1993. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.[dead link]
- ↑ "Jones, D.R. (1995) 'S Africa's bowlers reclaim top spot'". The Times. 24 April 1995. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.[dead link]
- ↑ "'For the Record' (1995)". The Times. 1 May 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.[dead link]
- ↑ "Past Records". Bowls England. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ↑ "Bowls". The Times. 18 August 1980. p. 34. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ↑ "Allan, G. 'Bowls'". The Times. 19 August 1982. p. 19. Retrieved 26 August 2023 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ↑ "Waverley within a shot of EBA title". Nottingham Evening Post. 23 August 1977. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Tribute competition to bowls legend Norma Shaw held". Gazette Live. 30 August 2010.
- ↑ United Kingdom list: "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1985. p. 15.
- English female bowls players
- 1937 births
- 2009 deaths
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls World Champions
- Indoor Bowls World Champions
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls