Sandra Bailie

Sandra Bailie
MBE

Personal information
Nationality	British (Northern Irish)
Born	(1960-11-30) 30 November 1960 (age 62) Northern Ireland
Sport
Sport	Lawn & indoor bowls
Club	NI Civil Service
Medal record Representing combined Ireland Atlantic Bowls Championships 2009 Johannesburg fours 2015 Paphos triples Irish National Bowls Championships 2008 fours 2011 fours 2012 triples 2014 fours 2016 pairs 2016 triples 2022 pairs

Sandra Hazel Bailie MBE (born 1960) is a Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler. ^[1]

Bowls career

Outdoor career

In 2009, she won the fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships ^{[2] [3]} and in 2015 she won the triples gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. ^[4]

She won the 2016 (pairs), 2012 & 2016 (triples) and 2008, 2011 & 2014 fours titles at the Irish National Bowls Championships bowling for the Knock Bowls Club. ^{[5] [6]}

In 2016, she was selected as part of the Northern Ireland team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland. ^[7]

In 2022, Bailie won her seventh national title while bowling for NI Civil Service. She won the pairs with Alison Morris. ^[8]

Indoor career

Bailie reached the final of the mixed pairs during the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing to Paul Foster and Alison Merrien. ^[9]

Honours and awards

Bailie was voted Belfast Sports Personality of the Year in 2017 ^[10]

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to bowls. ^[11]

References

1. "2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". Irish Women's Bowling Association.
2. "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
3. "Bowls" . The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021– via The Times Digital Archive.
4. "2015 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
5. "Irish Women's Bowling Association National Championships". Irish Women's Bowling Association.
6. "Lawn Bowls" (PDF). Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games.
7. "Commonwealth Games 2018: Northern Ireland name 88-strong squad". BBC Sport.
8. "2022 IWBA National Championships". Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
9. "World mixed pairs title for Ali". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
10. "Sandra Bailie – Belfast Sports personality of the year". CI Knock Bowling Club. 22 March 2016.
11. "No. 63918". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N16.