Katherine Rednall

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Katherine Rednall
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born (1996-01-07) 7 January 1996 (age 26)
Ipswich, England
Sport
ClubIpswich & District (indoors)
Felixstowe & Suffolk BC (outdoors)[1]
Medal record
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Gold Coast Women's triples
World Indoor Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Yarmouth singles
Gold medal – first place 2016 Yarmouth Mixed pairs
Gold medal – first place 2017 Yarmouth singles
Gold medal – first place 2018 Yarmouth singles
Silver medal – second place 2021 Yarmouth singles
Gold medal – first place 2022 Yarmouth singles

Katherine Rednall (born 7 January 1996) is an English lawn and indoor bowler from Stowmarket.

Bowls career[]

Indoors[]

Rednall became the youngest ever winner of a World Indoor Bowls title after she won the 2014 World Indoor Bowls Championship Women's Singles at the age of just 18.[2] Rednall reached the final of the 2015 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing out to Laura Thomas in the decider.[3] Rednall experienced further success after winning the Mixed Pairs title in 2016 with bowls partner Darren Burnett.[4]

She won a second singles title in 2017 after defeating Ellen Falkner in the final [5] and a third singles title during the 2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship defeating Rebecca Field in the final.[6]

During the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship she was seven months pregnant and performed well reaching the women's final, the mixed pairs semi final and was also the first woman to reach the Open singles quarter final.[7][8] The following year during the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, she won a record breaking fourth singles title.[9][10]

Outdoors[]

She was selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland[11] where she won a bronze medal in the Triples with Ellen Falkner and Sian Honnor.[12]

In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.[13]

Personal life[]

Rednall is the daughter of England international John Rednall.[14] She studied for a degree in fashion and textiles at the University of Essex and enjoys playing the saxophone.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Profile". Heneslite.
  2. ^ "Rednall Becomes Youngest ever winner". BBC Sport.
  3. ^ "Rednall through to final". Ipswich Star.
  4. ^ "Burnett & Rednall win mixed pairs". BBC Sport.
  5. ^ "World Indoor Bowls Championship 2017: Rednall beats Falkner to win second title". BBC Sport.
  6. ^ "World Indoor Bowls Championship 2018: Rednall beats Field to win third title". BBC Sport.
  7. ^ "Wales' Laura Daniels wins World Indoor Bowls final". BBC. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Daniels recovers from dropping first set to win ladies singles title at World Indoor Bowls Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  9. ^ "Stowmarket's Katherine Rednall puts in dominant display against Alison Merrien to win World Indoor Bowls Championship Ladies' Singles title for record fourth time". Suffolk News. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  10. ^ "World Indoor Bowls Championship 2021: Katherine Rednall delighted by fourth singles title". BBC. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  11. ^ "2018 Commonwealth Games team". Team England.
  12. ^ a b "Katherine Rednall Commonwealth Games profile". 2018 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  13. ^ "SELECTION: 2020 WORLD BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIPS". Bowls England.
  14. ^ "THE EXTRA END PODCAST EPISODE 5 – JOHN AND KATHERINE REDNALL". Bowls England. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
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