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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 October 1991 Torquay, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kings BC, Torquay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 6 (August 2024) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sophie Tolchard (born 2 October 1991) is an English international lawn bowler.
In 2016, she won a pairs bronze medal with Ellen Falkner at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch. [2]
In 2023, she was selected as part of the team to represent England at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. [3] She participated in the women's pairs and the women's fours events. [4] [5] In the fours, her team won the gold medal defeating Australia in the final and one week later in the pairs, she won a bronze medal partnering Amy Pharaoh.
Sophie has competed at three Commonwealth Games for England. The first in the women's triples at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, [6] where she won a gold medal with partners Ellen Falkner and Sian Gordon. [7] [8] The second was in 2018, when she was selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland. [9]
In 2022, she competed in the women's pairs and the Women's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. [10] In the pairs with Amy Pharaoh she secured a silver medal. [11]
In 2015, she won the triples silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. [12] In 2020, she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia. [13]
She has won nine National Championships, three of which have been in the National singles. The recent successes were in 2018 when she beat Amy Gowshall in the singles and was also part of the winning fours, [14] the 2019 Two wood singles, the 2021 triples, with Harriet Stevens and Emma Cooper [15] and the 2022 pairs with Stevens. [16]
In 2023, she won the singles title at the British Isles Bowls Championships, held in Ayr. It was her fifth British Isles title. [17] Later in August, she won the triples with Nicole Rogers and Harriet Stevens, at the 2023 Bowls England National Finals to claim her tenth national title. [18] The three women then went on to win the triples title at the 2024 British Isles Bowls Championships. [19]
She is the sister of England international bowler Sam Tolchard. She now works part-time for Coreus. [20]
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