Patricia Smith (bowls)

Patricia Josephine Smith was an Australian international lawn bowler.[1]

Pat Smith
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born1920
Murwillumbah
Died2017 aged 97
Sport
ClubMurwillumbah BC

Bowls career

Pat was part of the fours team that won a silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[2] She had previously competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.

She also won a gold medal at the 1985 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in Tweed Heads, New South Wales[3] and bowled for New South Wales from 1972-1987.

Awards

She was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and the Member of the Order of Australia in 1989 for services to bowls.[4]

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References

  1. "Pat Smith profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  3. Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 90. Pan Books Ltd. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-330-31364-9.
  4. "Pat embodied Games spirit". Tweed Daily News.
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