Nina Shipperlee
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| Nationality | Welsh | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 August 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Whitchurch BC | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nina Shipperlee (born 30 August 1936) is a former Welsh international lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Shipperlee won the triples silver medal at the 1997 Atlantic Bowls Championships in Llandrindod Wells.[2][3]
Five years later, she won the bronze medal in the fours with Gill Miles, Ann Sutherland and Pam John at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.[4][5]
Shipperlee won the National pairs title in 1998 and 1999.[6]
She still bowls for the Whitchurch Bowling Club in North Cardiff and in 1988 became the clubs first member to be capped by Wales.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Athletes Profile:Lawn Bowls". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Hawes and Price take title for England'". The Times. 27 August 1997. p. 39. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.[dead link]
- ↑ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Price savours singular feat'". The Times. 3 September 1997. p. 46. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.[dead link]
- ↑ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ↑ "profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ↑ ""Sport in Brief." Times, 10 Sept. 1999, p. 55". Times Digital Archives.
- ↑ "History". Whitchurch Bowls Club.