Elsie McDonald
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Nationality | South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Kimberley, Northern Cape | 12 February 1920||||||||||||||||
Died | 13 December 2012 | (aged 92)||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||
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Elsie Adelaide McDonald (née Cawood), was a South African international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career[]
She started bowling in 1958 for the Kimberley Engineering Works BC.[2]
In 1969 she won the gold medal in the pairs with May Cridlan and the silver medal at the 1969 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Sydney, Australia.[3] She also won a gold medal in the team event (Taylor Trophy).[4]
She was inaugurated into the South African Hall of Fame in 1981.
References[]
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Elsie McDonald 1920-2012". Press Reader.
- ^ "Elsie McDonald profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 2012 deaths
- South African female bowls players
- Bowls World Champions
- Bowls biography stubs
- South African sportspeople stubs