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Margaret Pomeroy

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Margaret Pomeroy
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubHoward Gardens
Sophia Gardens
Medal record
Representing  Wales
World Outdoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1977 Worthing triples
Bronze medal – third place 1977 Worthing fours
Silver medal – second place 1977 Worthing team
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Auckland fours
British Isles Championships
Gold medal – first place 1986 pairs
Gold medal – first place 1989 pairs
Gold medal – first place 1976 triples
Gold medal – first place 1981 triples

Margaret Pomeroy is a Welsh former international lawn and indoor bowls competitor.[1]

Bowls career

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World Championships

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In 1977 she won the gold medal in the triples with Enid Morgan and Joan Osborne, bronze medal in the fours with Morgan, Osborne and Janet Ackland and a silver medal in the team event (Taylor Trophy), at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[2] In 1980, she took part in the world championship qualifier at the Whitnash Bowls Club for the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Canada.[3]

Eleven years later she won a bronze medal at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland.

National

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Pomeroy has won 12 titles at the Welsh National Bowls Championships (1965, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1981 singles; 1969, 1975, 1982, 1985, 1988 pairs; 1979, 1985 triples) when bowling for the Howard Gardens and Sophia Gardens Bowls Clubs respectively.[4] and seven indoor National titles, three in the pairs, three in the triples and one in the fours.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  2. ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  3. ^ "Top bowlers at ladies' championship". Banbury Guardian. 19 June 1980. Retrieved 23 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
  5. ^ "Competitions - Past Winners & Players". WLIBA.