Cathelean Marie du Plessis is a South African born, former international

lawn 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 ...

competitor for

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

Bowls career

In 1993, she won the pairs bronze medal with

Anne Ainsworth Anne Ainsworth (born 1951) is a former international lawn bowls competitor for Namibia. Bowls career In 1993, she won the pairs bronze medal with Cathelean du Plessis, at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships in Florida. She has represent ...

, at the inaugural

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 ...

. In 1998 she won a

silver medal A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, ...

at the

1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 Commonwealth Games ( Malay: ), officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games (Malay: ), were a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 1998 games were the first held in Asia and the last Commonwealth Games of the 20th cen ...

in the pairs with Lynne Lindsay-Payne.

References

1941 births South African female bowls players Namibian bowls players Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Namibia Living people Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists in lawn bowls {{Namibia-sport-bio-stub