Jayne Elizabeth Roylance (née Ward) (8 October 1947– 3 November 2018) was a

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 ...

international for England.

Bowls career

Roylance won a silver medal in the women's triples with Norma Shaw and Barbara Fuller during the

1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 1988 Men's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand, from 30 January to 14 February 1988. David Bryant won a third singles Gold defeating Willie Wood in the final. New Zealand won the Pairs and Triples, ...

Auckland Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and ...

. Two years later she won a bronze medal in the pairs with Mary Price at the

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

and four years later Roylance represented

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

in the fours event, at the

1994 Commonwealth Games The 1994 Commonwealth Games ( French: ''XVéme Jeux du Commonwealth'') were held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, between 18 and 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, box ...

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. In addition she has also won three National titles and one national competition representing Norfolk. The fours in 1985, the two wood singles in 1988 and 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 ...

in 1989

Family

Her brothers Chris Ward and David Ward were both international players.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roylance, Jayne English female bowls players 1947 births 2018 deaths Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games People from Fakenham 20th-century English sportswomen Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls