Claire Johnston (bowls)
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Nationality | Scottish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Irvine, Scotland | 22 February 1979||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Auchinleck BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Claire Johnston (born 22 February 1979) is a Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler.
Bowls career[]
Johnston is from Irvine, North Ayrshire, in Scotland[2] and won a bronze medal in the pairs at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship with Margaret Letham.[3]
In 2011 she won the pairs gold medal and singles bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships[4] and four years later she won the fours gold medal at the 2015 Atlantic Bowls Championships.[5]
Johnston gained major indoor honours when winning the mixed pairs title at the 2017 World Indoor Bowls Championship with Nick Brett of England.[6] In 2018 she was selected as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland[7] where she won a bronze medal in the Pairs with Lesley Doig.[8]
In 2019 she won the Scottish National Bowls Championships pairs title with Hannah Smith.[9] and also won the triples silver medal and fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[10]
References[]
- ^ "Lawn Bowls | Athlete Profile: Claire JOHNSTON - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games".
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Claire Johnson Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Women's Four on Top of World Down Under". Bowls Scotland. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
- ^ "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "2015 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "World Indoor Bowls Championship 2017: Brett & Johnston win mixed pairs title". BBC Sport.
- ^ "2018 Commonwealth Games profile". Team Scotland.
- ^ "Pairs results". CG2018.
- ^ "Second stage results". Bowls Scotland.
- ^ "2019 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- Scottish female bowls players
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Indoor Bowls World Champions
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games