Anna Pretorius is a South African former international

lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

. Pretorius won a gold medal in the Women's fours at the

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Colleen Grondein Colleen Grondein is a former South African international Bowls, lawn bowler. Bowls career Grondein won a gold medal in the Lawn bowls at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, Women's fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Vi ...

, Lorna Trigwell and Hester Bekker. It was the first time that South Africa had won a gold medal since 1958, following the return from their

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Commonwealth ban enforced in 1961. Her daughter Linda Ralph won a New Zealand bowls national title after emigrating to that country.

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Living people South African female bowls players Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Year of birth missing (living people) Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-bowls-bio-stub