Phillis Nolan
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Nationality | Irish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | February 1946 Bray | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | Blackrock BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Phillis Nolan is a former Irish lawn bowler, born in February 1946.[1]
Bowls career[]
World Outdoor Championship[]
Nolan partnered Margaret Johnston in a very successful pairs team and they won three consecutive World Outdoor Bowls Championships gold medals.[2] The three world titles came at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.
Atlantic Championships[]
In 1993, she won the pairs gold medal with Barbara Cameron at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships.[3][4] She went on to win three more medals at the Championships.
British Isles[]
She also won the British Isles Bowls Championships singles title three times in 1992, 1993 and 2005, a record only bettered by fellow Irish bowler Margaret Johnston[5] and won the 2014 triples title at the Irish National Bowls Championships bowling for the Blackrock Bowls Club.[6]
Family[]
Her son John Nolan was the 1991 singles champion at the Irish National Bowls Championships.[7]
References[]
- ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ^ "Bowling for Gold". Culture Northern Ireland.
- ^ "'Shaw strikes gold'". The Times. 25 October 1993. p. 28. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'Guernsey finally falter". The Times. 1 November 1993. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Bowls: Phillis Nolan eyes British record win". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Irish Women's Bowling Association National Championships". Irish Women's Bowling Association.
- ^ "bad day for Scots in Larne". Dundee Courier. 20 June 1992. p. 17. Retrieved 9 April 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Bowls World Champions