Marilyn Peddell
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Marilyn Gay Peddell is an international lawn and indoor bowls competitor for Australia, from Bribie Island.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]In 1996, Peddell won the gold medal in the fours at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide. Two years later she won a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the fours.[2] In addition she finished runner-up to Betty Brown in the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship at Great Yarmouth.[3]
She won three medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including a 1997 fours gold medal in Warilla.[4]
She won the Kingscliff Pairs in 1996 and in 2002 and has won the Queensland Champion of Champions singles title in 2008 and 2009.[5]
She was the runner-up in the 'W.I.B.C.' Ladies Singles for the Christine Peacock Trophy in 2000/2001. She lost the last game of the Asia Pacific championship which cost her the gold medal, and she was afterwards excluded from the Australian team in 2002. A portrait of her was hung in the Archibald Prize in 2000.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletes' Profile: Lawn Bowls". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Bowls: Brown in shape for showdown". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Marilyn Peddell eyes third Champion of Champions singles title