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| Nationality | British (Channel Islander) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 March 1981 Jersey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | St Brelade BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 56 (August 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lindsey Greechan is an international lawn bowls player from Jersey. She became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2008. [1]
Lindsey Greechan represented Jersey in lawn bowls at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [2] With Katie Nixon, the pair lost to Northern Ireland in the pairs bronze medal match 15–14. Had they won the match, they would have been Jersey's first medalists at the Commonwealth Games for 24 years. [3] [4]
She became the first bowls player from Jersey to win an IIBC Championships at any level in 2002, when she won the Junior Ladies title.[ citation needed ] She helped Jersey defeat England in a test series for the first time in 2004. [5]
At the Atlantic Bowls Championships in 2007, Lindsey won gold with Jersey in the women's fours event. [6] [7] [8] [9] In 2008, she came away with a bronze medal at the women's World Singles Champion of Champions event. [10] [11]
Lindsey has won Jersey's women's outdoor Bowler of the Year three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2012. [12] Her mother, Gina Le Long, father, Peter Le Long, and brother, Kevin Le Long, have all played or play bowls competitively as well at national and international level for Jersey. [13] [14] [15]
Greechan won a silver medal in the women's singles and a bronze medal in the pairs with daughter Chloe Greechan, at the 2024 European Bowls Championships. [16] [17]
Greechan is part of a successful bowls family that includes her husband Thomas and daughter Chloe.
Natalie Melmore is a lawn bowler from Newton Abbot.
Ellen Marie Falkner 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 to lawn bowls.
Sian Honnor is an English international lawn bowler from Whitstable.
Sam Tolchard is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.
Margaret Johnson MBE is a former Northern Irish lawn and indoor bowler.
The European Bowls Championship formerly the European Bowls Team Championships is a biennial continental lawn bowls tournament for European nations. From its inauguration in 1997 until September 2021, the tournament was organised by the European Bowls Union (EBU).
Nor Hashimah Ismail is a Malaysian lawn bowler.
This page is about the IIBC Championships. For the World Bowls Tour, see World Indoor Bowls Championships.
The Greechans are a family of bowls players from Jersey. Both Lindsey Greechan and Thomas Greechan, compete both indoor and outdoor, as does their daughter Chloe Greechan and son Taylor Greechan. Thomas, Lindsey and Helen are all British champions while Thomas, Lindsey and Chloe have all won the IIBC Championships on at least one occasion each. Lindsey, Thomas and Helen have also represented Jersey at the Commonwealth Games.
Claire Johnston is a Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler.
Lorna Marie-Therese Trigwell, married name Lorna Smith, is a South African international lawn bowler. She is regarded as one of the leading players in the world after winning multiple medals.
Christine Anne Grimes is an international lawn and indoor bowler representing Jersey.
Gean Pamela O'Neil (1951-2018) was an international lawn and indoor bowler representing Jersey.
Karina Anna Bisson is an international lawn and indoor bowler representing Jersey.
Lucy Kate Beere is a Guernsey international lawn and indoor bowler.
Jordan Audra Sargent Kos is a female international Canadian lawn bowler.
Shauna O'Neill is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler.
Thomas Greechan is a Scottish born international lawn bowls player from Jersey. He became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2016.
Michael Rive is an international lawn bowler representing Jersey.
Chloe May Greechan is a sportswoman from Jersey. She plays for the Jersey women's cricket team, for which she has been captain since 2020, and is the first woman from the island to take a five-wicket haul in WT20Is. Greechan is also a former world champion in indoor bowls.
