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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 | 31 (December 2024) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. [2]
Lindsey Greechan represented Jersey in lawn bowls at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [3] 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. [4] [5]
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. [6]
At the Atlantic Bowls Championships in 2007, Lindsey won gold with Jersey in the women's fours event. [7] [8] [9] [10] In 2008, she came away with a bronze medal at the women's World Singles Champion of Champions event. [11] [12]
Lindsey has won Jersey's women's outdoor Bowler of the Year three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2012. [13] 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. [14] [15] [16]
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. [17] [18] [19]
Greechan is part of a successful bowls family that includes her husband Thomas and daughter Chloe.
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Sian Honnor is an English international lawn bowler from Whitstable.
Selina Goddard is a New Zealand international lawn bowls player, playing out of Takapuna Bowling Club.
Sam Tolchard is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.
Colleen Piketh is a South African international lawn 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).
Margaret Elizabeth Letham is a female lawn and indoor bowler. From Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in Scotland and started bowling at the age of 15.
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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.
Joyce Scott Lindores was a Scottish international indoor and lawn bowler.
Katelyn Inch is a New Zealand international lawn bowler.
Iain Donald Smith McLean is a Scottish international lawn bowler.
Bernadette O'Neill is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler.
Christine Anne Grimes is an international lawn and indoor bowler representing Jersey.
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.
