Margaret Letham

Margaret Letham

Personal information
Nationality	British (Scottish)
Born	(1956-06-21) 21 June 1956 (age 66)
Sport
Sport	Bowls
Club	Burbank Hamilton BC
Medal record Representing   Scotland Women's bowls World Outdoor Championships 2000 Moama Pairs 2012 Adelaide Fours 2000 Moama Team 2004 Leamington Singles 2012 Adelaide Pairs 2012 Adelaide Team Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur Pairs Atlantic Championships 1999 Cape Town Pairs 2007 Ayr Pairs 2009 Johannesburg Pairs 2011 Paphos Pairs 1999 Cape Town Singles 2005 Bangor Pairs 2005 Bangor Fours British Isles Championships 2022 Landrindod Wells singles

Margaret Elizabeth Letham (born 21 June 1956) is a female lawn and indoor bowler. From Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in Scotland and started bowling at the age of 15. ^[1]

Bowls career

World Outdoor Championships

Letham has won medals at four World Outdoor Championships. ^[2] Starting with a pairs gold with Joyce Lindores in 2000 in Moama, Australia and then a singles bronze four years later in Leamington Spa. The third medal came eight years later when she was part of the four that won gold in Adelaide, the four consisted of Letham, Caroline Brown, Lynn Stein and Michelle Cooper. At the same event she also won the pairs bronze partnering Claire Johnston.

Commonwealth Games

She won gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had competed in five consecutive Commonwealth Games for Scotland from 1998 until 2014. ^[3]

International

In 1999 she won the singles slver medal and pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. ^{[4] [5]}

Six years later in 2005, she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the Championships ^[6] and in 2007 she a second pairs gold medal at the Championships. ^{[7] [8]} In 2009 she won her third pairs gold medal ^{[9] [10]} before winning a fourth pairs gold medal (and seventh medal in total) at the 2011 Championships in Paphos. ^[11]

In 2008, she won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title. ^[12]

National

Letham has won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title on two occasions in 1999 and 2019. ^[13] In 2022, she won the women's singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships. ^[14]

References

1. "Glasgow 2014 - Margaret Letham Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
2. "Margaret Letham leads Scots to fours gold at World Bowls". BBC Sport.
3. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
4. "'Johnston maintains dominance' (1999)" . The Times. 29 March 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 25 May 2021– via The Times Digital Archive.
5. "'For the Record' (1999)" . The Times. 25 March 1999. p. 53. Retrieved 25 May 2021– via The Times Digital Archive.
6. "2005 Atlantic Rim Games". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 January 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
7. "2007 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
8. "Bowls" . The Times. 18 July 2007. p. 61. Retrieved 20 May 2021– via The Times Digital Archive.
9. "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
10. "Bowls" . The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021– via The Times Digital Archive.
11. "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
12. "HK Classic winners Women's singles". HKLBA. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
13. "Second stage results". Bowls Scotland.
14. "Scotland clinch five British Isles titles". Bowls Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2022.