Caroline Brown (born 27 August 1980) is a Scottish international indoor and lawn and indoor

bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...

player.

Bowls career

Brown was born in

Bellshill Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, southeast of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell to the south, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton to the south ...

, North Lanarkshire on 27 August 1980. She won the

2007 World Indoor Bowls Championship The 2007 World Indoor Bowls Championships was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 08-28 January 2007. The event was sponsored by Potters Holidays. Alex Marshall (bowls), Alex Marshall won the men's single ...

women's singles and five years later who won a gold and bronze medal at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. In 2009, she won the pairs gold medal at the

Atlantic Bowls Championships The Atlantic Bowls Championships was a bowls, lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Atlantic region. The event was a qualifying event for the World Bowls Championship, World Outdoor Bowls Championships until ...

. After winning the 2010

Scottish National Bowls Championships The Scottish National Bowls Championships is one of the oldest bowls competitions in the world. In 1892, James Brown of Sanquhar Bowling Club and Dr Clark of the Partick Bowling Club formed the Scottish Bowls Association and organised the first ...

she subsequently won the singles at the

British Isles Bowls Championships The British Isles Bowls Championships is a tournament held between the champions of their respective nations, from England, Scotland, Wales, a combined Ireland, and more recently Guernsey and Jersey. It was first held in 1960 although the triple ...

in 2011. She won the gold medal at the 2014

World Cup Singles World Cup Singles The World Cup Singles was an event inaugurated in 2005 by the organisation known as World Bowls and was held until 2019. It was contested annually between bowlers from national bowls organisations. The competition was seen as th ...

in Warilla,

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, Australia. In 2018, she was selected as part of the Scottish team for the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

on the Gold Coast in

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that won a silver medal in the

Triples TripleS (; ; stylized as tripleS) is a South Korean 24-member multinational girl group formed by Modhaus. They aim to be the world's first decentralized idol group, where the members will rotate between the full group, sub-units, and solo activi ...

with Kay Moran and Stacey McDougall. In 2019 she won the triples silver medal and singles bronze 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 The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England betw ...

. In 2023, she was selected as part of the team to represent Scotland at the

2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship is the 14th edition of the World Bowls Championship, held on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia from 29 August to 10 September. The event was long-awaited by the sport because the 2020 World Out ...

. She participated in the women's triples and the women's fours events. In the fours, her team won the bronze medal.

Personal life

Brown works as a Senior Improvement Officer for

NHS Lanarkshire NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the health care of more than 652,000 people living within the council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire in Scotland, making it the third largest health board in the country after NHS Greater Glas ...

References

External links

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''Sporting Hall Of Fame'' * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Caroline 1980 births Living people Scottish female bowls players Bowls World Champions Indoor Bowls World Champions Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Motherwell Sportspeople from Bellshill 21st-century Scottish sportswomen Commonwealth Games silver medallists in lawn bowls