Betty Forsyth
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Nationality | Scottish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 6 April 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Blantyre BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Elizabeth Leishman Forsyth is a former Scottish international female lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career[]
Forsyth represented Scotland in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and won a bronze medal,[2] the 1998 Commonwealth Games, 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games.
She also won a fours silver medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa.[3]
In 1995 she won the fours gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships[4][5] and ten years later won the fours silver medal at the Championships.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Internationalist Forsyth bows out at first hurdle bowls". Herald Scotland.
- ^ "Sporting Digest: Bowls". The Independent.
- ^ "World Bowls Championships" (PDF). worldbowls.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
- ^ "Jones, D.R. (1995) 'S Africa's bowlers reclaim top spot'". The Times. 24 April 1995. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'For the Record' (1995)". The Times. 1 May 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2005 Atlantic Rim Games". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 2006-01-11. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
Categories:
- Living people
- Scottish female bowls players
- 1945 births
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls