Caroline Brown (bowls)

Caroline Brown (born 1980) is a Scottish international indoor and lawn and indoor bowls player.[1]

Caroline Brown
Personal information
NationalityScottish
Born (1980-08-27) 27 August 1980
Bellshill
Sport
SportBowls
ClubMotherwell BC (outdoors)
Blantyre Miners Welfare (indoors)
Medal record
Women's bowls
Representing  Scotland
World Outdoor Championships
2012 Adelaide Women's fours
2012 Adelaide Women's triples
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold CoastWomen's triples
World Indoor Bowls Championships
2007 Yarmouth Women's singles

Bowls career

Brown won the 2007 World Indoor Bowls Championship women's singles and five years later who won a gold and bronze medal at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[2] She became the first Scottish woman to win the World Cup.[3]

After winning the 2010 Scottish National Bowls Championships she subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2011.[4]

She won the gold medal at the 2014 World Cup Singles in Warilla, New South Wales, Australia.[5]

In 2018 she was selected as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland that won a silver medal in the Triples with Kay Moran and Stacey McDougall.[1]

References
  1. "2018 Commonwealth Games profile". Team Scotland.
  2. "Caroline Brown spotlight". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  3. "Caroline Brown becomes first Scottish woman to win World Cup in Australia". Bowls Scotland. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  4. "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
  5. "Past results" (PDF). World Bowls.com.
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