Gill Mitchell
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 May 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Kettering Lodge BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gill Mitchell also known as Gill Fitzgerald (maiden name Gill McBryde) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Under her previous name of Fitzgerald she was part of the fours team that win a bronze medal at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Leamington Spa. In 2002, she was part of the gold medal winning team in the fours at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester along with Ellen Alexander, Shirley Page and Carol Duckworth.[2][3]
Mitchell was also two wood singles national champion in 1990[4] and runner up to Norma Shaw in the 1998 national championships representing Northamptonshire.[5]
In 1995 she won the pairs silver medal (partnering Norma Shaw) and the fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Gill Mitchell profile". Bowls Tawa. Archived from the original on 19 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ↑ "Day six in Manchester". BBC. 30 July 2002.
- ↑ "England women take gold". BBC. 30 July 2002.
- ↑ "Rising star is easy winner". Western Daily Press. 6 August 1990. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Birmingham Weekly Mercury". Quartet seal it for Warwicks. 16 August 1998. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "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]