Dorothy Roche
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Merrylands Bowling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dorothy Edna Roche OAM (born 1928), is a former international lawn bowls competitor for Australia.[1]
Bowls career[]
She won the triples gold medal and fours silver medal at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne, Australia. Three years later she won double gold after winning both the triples and fours at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland.[2]
Roche became Australia's oldest Commonwealth Games gold medal winner when she won the women's fours at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, in Auckland, at the age of 61 years and 10 months.
She won three medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including a gold medal in the 1993 triples, in Victoria, Canada.[3]
Roche was awarded the Order of Australia for services to bowls in 1990.[4]
References[]
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Biographies". Trove.
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- 1928 births
- Australian female bowls players
- Bowls World Champions
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia