Sylvia Burns is a South African 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 ...

Bowls career

She won a gold medal in the Women's Triples at the

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. In 2007, she won the fours silver medal at the

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In 2009 she won another fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships and in 2015 she won the triples and fours bronze medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 2016, she won a

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with Susan Nel and

Elma Davis Elma Davis (1 April 1968 – 14 April 2019) was a South African international lawn bowler. Bowls career In 2016, Davis won a bronze medal with Susan Nel and Sylvia Burns in the triples at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christch ...

in the

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at the

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. She won the 2017 pairs title at the

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bowling for the Edgemead Bowls Club.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Sylvia Living people South African female bowls players 1955 births Sportspeople from Cape Town