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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Belfast BC Saintfield BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hilda Hamilton is a former international lawn and indoor bowler from Northern Ireland who competed at the Commonwealth Games.
Hamilton was initially a member of the Belfast Bowls Club [1] and represented the combined Ireland team at international level. [2] She also bowled indoors. [3]
She was the singles champion of Ireland at the 1983 Irish National Bowls Championships. [4] and went on to win five more titles in the triples (1985, 1987 and 1989) and fours (1984, 1985). [5] She subsequently qualified to represent Ireland at the British Isles Bowls Championships, winning the fours title in 1985 and 1986 and triples in 1988. [6] The last of her national titles was with the Saintfield Bowls Club. [7]
Hamilton represented the Northern Irish team [8] at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, [9] where she competed in the fours event, with Kathleen Megrath, Nan Allely and Maureen Mallon. [10]
At the 1990 British Isles Championships Hamilton and fellow bowler Eileen Bell were forced to concede their matches due to the ban on the third Irish bowler Kathleen Megrath. [11]
