Nina Shipperlee

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Nina Shipperlee
Personal information
NationalityWelsh
Born (1936-08-30) 30 August 1936 (age 86)
Sport
ClubWhitchurch BC
Medal record
lawn bowls
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Manchester fours
Atlantic Bowls Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1997 Llandrindod Wellstriples

Nina Shipperlee (born 30 August 1936) is a former Welsh international lawn bowler. [1]

Bowls career

Shipperlee won the triples silver medal at the 1997 Atlantic Bowls Championships in Llandrindod Wells. [2] [3]

Five years later, she won the bronze medal in the fours with Gill Miles, Ann Sutherland and Pam John at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. [4] [5]

Shipperlee won the National pairs title in 1998 and 1999. [6]

She still bowls for the Whitchurch Bowling Club in North Cardiff and in 1988 became the clubs first member to be capped by Wales. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Athletes Profile:Lawn Bowls". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  2. ↑ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Hawes and Price take title for England'" . The Times. 27 August 1997. p. 39. Retrieved 25 May 2021– via The Times Digital Archive.
  3. ↑ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Price savours singular feat'" . The Times. 3 September 1997. p. 46. Retrieved 25 May 2021– via The Times Digital Archive.
  4. ↑ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  5. ↑ "profile". Bowls Tawa.
  6. ↑ ""Sport in Brief." Times, 10 Sept. 1999, p. 55". Times Digital Archives.
  7. ↑ "History". Whitchurch Bowls Club.
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