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2022 Bowls England National Finals
The 2022 Bowls England National Finals are a series of lawn bowls events to determine the National champions of England. The Championships are being held from 25 August to 11 September 2022, at the Royal Leamington Spa Bowls Club in Victoria Park, Leamington Spa. They are organised by Bowls England, and are open to lawn bowlers who qualify via their County Championships. Sam Tolchard successfully defended his two wood singles title. Rebecca Moorbey became only the second woman (after Sophie Tolchard) to secure both the women's singles and women's junior singles titles. In the elite pairs events, Nick Brett won his second national title partnering Lewis Baker and Sophie Tolchard won her eighth title partnering Harriet Stevens. On 8 September 2022, play for 9 September was suspended due to the death of Elizabeth II On 8 September 2022, at 15:10 BST, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and the longest-reigning British monarch, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Park, Leamington Spa
Victoria Park is a public park in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. It is situated about half a mile (800 m) west of the town centre and is on the south bank of the River Leam. The total area of the park as it stands today is . History & Features Up until the 1830s the park was just part of farmland on the edge of the growing spa town. It was at that time that one of the local land owning families, the Willes, began to hold archery competitions on the land. In the middle of the nineteenth century Leamington Cricket club made their first home there and in the 1860s the New Riverside Walk was opened. The park was extensively landscaped and redesigned in 1899 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Before the Royal Show moved to Stoneleigh Park one of its venues was Victoria Park. The bowling greens are amongst the best in England, hosting the English Men's and Women's Bowling Championships annually as well as the Women's event at the 2004 World Outdoor B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowls England National Championships (men's Fours)
The men's fours is one of the events at the annual Bowls England National Championships. History From 1905 until 1914, the event was called the Charles Wood Australian Cup. During the 1908 final, the skip of the Upper Clapton team Mr H. Grounds collapsed and died during play. The title was awarded to Carlisle Edenside. Venues *1905–1907, 1910 (Upper Clapton BC, Clapton, London) *1908 (Streatham Constitutional Club, Streatham) *1909 (Leicester BC, Leicester} *1911 (Forest Hill BC, Forest Hill, London) *1912–1913 (Belmont BC, Streatham) *1914, 1926 (Bellingham BC, Bellingham, Catford) *1919 (South London & Balham clubs, Balham/Wandsworth) *1920 (Great Northern Railway AC, Gordon Hill, London) *1921 (Summerhill Gosforth & Portland clubs, Newcastle upon Tyne) *1922, 1928, 1935 (Croydon BC, South Croydon) *1923 (Wellingborough BC, Wellingborough) *1924, 1936, 1938–1939 (Temple Bowling Club, Denmark Hill) *1925 (City & Spa clubs, Gloucester) *1927 (Preston Park, Brighton) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowls England National Championships (men's Junior Pairs)
The men's junior pairs is one of the events at the annual English National Bowls Championships The English Bowls Association was the governing body of bowls in England until 2007. From 2008 onwards, Bowls England was formed, which now runs the sport. The national finals for bowls are held annually, where either 1, 2 or 3 representatives from .... Past winners References {{reflist Bowls in England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Kuhler
Lorraine Kuhler (born 7 June 1990) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career Kuhler took up bowls at the age of 11 at her parent's club in Brighton. Kuhler is a National triples champion (2014) and three times winner of the National Junior Pairs at the Bowls England National Championships when bowling for Worthing Pavilion and Sussex. In 2011, she won two medals at the European Bowls Championships in Portugal. In 2019, she won the gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships and in 2020, she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, she won triples silver and fours bronze at the European Bowls Championships. In 2023, she was selected as part of the team to represent England at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Hawes
Katherine Elizabeth Alice Hawes (born 1969) is an English female lawn and indoor bowler international. Bowls career International events In 1997 she won the pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships with Mary Price. The following year she represented England in the pairs again with Mary Price, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 1999 she won a fours silver at the Atlantic Championships in Cape Town and the following year she won a triples silver medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa. National events Hawes has won five National titles. At the 2021 Bowls England National Finals, she just missed out on winning a sixth title after finishing runner-up to Stef Branfield in the two wood singles, losing 16–10. National titles *1992 Bowls England National Championships (Women's Triples) *1997 Bowls England National Championships (Women's Singles Two Wood) *2010 Bowls England National Championships (W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie-Lea Winch
Jamie-Lea Marshall (née Jamie-Lea Winch) (born 18 October 1990) is an English international lawn bowler. Bowls career Jamie competed for England in the women's pairs at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a silver medal with Natalie Melmore. In 2015 she won the triples silver medal and fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships and in 2016, she was part of the fours team with Rebecca Wigfield, Wendy King and Ellen Falkner who won the silver medal at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch. She has won four National Championships including the singles in 2019. Also during 2019 she won the triples gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 2022, she competed in the women's triples and the Women's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She won the gold medal in the triples with Sian Honnor Sian Honnor (née Gordon, born 14 January 1988, in Canterbury) is an English international lawn bowler from Whitstable. Bowls career Outd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Saunders (bowls)
Julie Saunders married name Julie Leake, is an English female international lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career Saunders won the English National title in 2005 representing Hampshire. By winning the National title she represented England at the 2006 World Singles Champion of Champions event in Christchurch, New Zealand where she won the gold medal defeating Julie Keegan in the final. In 2011 she won the fours gold medal and the triples silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 2022, she won the champion of champions title at the 2022 Bowls England National Finals. Personal life Saunders is a sports coach at Bryanston School, near Blandford Forum Blandford Forum ( ), commonly Blandford, is a market town in Dorset, England, sited by the River Stour, Dorset, River Stour about northwest of Poole. It was the administrative headquarters of North Dorset District until April 2019, when this ... and married fellow bowler Roy Leake (a former fours National finalist) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowls England National Championships (women's Champion Of Champions)
The women's champion of champions is one of the events at the annual Bowls England National Championships. History The event started in 1989, five years after the inuguration of the equivalent men's event, the Bowls England National Championships (men's champion of champions). Venues *1989–2023 (Victoria Park, Royal Leamington Spa) Sponsors *1991–1994 (Henselite) *2000 (National Express) *2005 (Thomas Cook) *2023 (Aviva Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 18 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general ...) Past winners References {{reflist Bowls in England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |