Rebecca Louise Wigfield is an English international

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.

Career history

Rebecca Wigfield has won two

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; in 2013 she won the National Two‐Wood Singles followed by the 2015 National Fours. In 2016, she won the Bowls England Women’s National Champion of Champions. The bowler who represents

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was part of the fours team with Wendy King, Jamie-Lea Winch and

Ellen Falkner Ellen Marie Falkner (née Alexander; born 12 June 1979) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler from Cambridge, England. Falkner was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services ...

who won the silver medal at the

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. In 2015, she won the pairs and fours bronze medals 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 ...

and in 2019 she once again won the pairs bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 2023, she represented England in the British Isles series.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wigfield, Rebecca English female bowls players 1988 births Living people Bowls European Champions 21st-century English sportswomen