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Jayne Christie (née Measures) (born 1962) is an English international
lawn bowler 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 ...
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Bowls career

She finished runner-up in the 1999 national singles. Christie made her international debut in 2000 and later captained England in 2008. She was runner-up in the 1999 & 2002
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singles. In 2003 she was part of the England team that won Team gold medal at the European Bowls Team Championships in
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. In 2004, she won the gold medal in the fours with Jean Baker,
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at the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. She went on to win National Mixed Fours title in 2013 with
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, Ellen Falkner and Chris Falkner. She is also a member of the selection committee for Bowls England. In 2023, bowling for Potton BC, she finished runner-up in the women's singles during the 2023 Bowls England National Finals, losing to Stef Branfield. It was the third time this had happened, having finished runner-up in 1999 (as Jayne Smith) and also in 2002, when bowling for Henlow Park BC.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Christie, Jayne Living people English female bowls players Bowls World Champions 1962 births 20th-century English sportswomen