Caroline Brown (bowls)
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Born | Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | 27 August 1980||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Motherwell BC (outdoors) Blantyre Miners Welfare (indoors) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | 35 (August 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caroline Brown (born 27 August 1980) is a Scottish international indoor and lawn and indoor bowls player.
Bowls career
[edit]Brown was born in Bellshill,[1] North Lanarkshire on 27 August 1980.[2]
She won the 2007 World Indoor Bowls Championship women's singles and five years later who won a gold and bronze medal at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[3]
In 2009, she won the pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[4][5]
After winning the 2010 Scottish National Bowls Championships she subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2011.[6]
She won the gold medal at the 2014 World Cup Singles in Warilla, New South Wales, Australia.[7][8]
In 2018, she was selected as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland that won a silver medal in the Triples with Kay Moran and Stacey McDougall.[2] In 2019 she won the triples silver medal and singles bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[9]
In 2022, she competed in the women's triples and the Women's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[10] In 2023, she was selected as part of the team to represent Scotland at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[11] She participated in the women's triples and the women's fours events.[12][13] In the fours, her team won the bronze medal.
Personal life
[edit]Brown works as a Senior Improvement Officer for NHS Lanarkshire.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Caroline Brown looking to go one better at 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham". Glasgow Times. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ a b "2018 Commonwealth Games profile". Team Scotland.
- ^ "Caroline Brown spotlight". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
- ^ "Past results" (PDF). World Bowls.com.
- ^ "Caroline Brown becomes first Scottish woman to win World Cup in Australia". Bowls Scotland. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ "2019 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ "Official Games profile". 2022 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
- ^ "COMPETITORS CONFIRMED: WORLD BOWLS OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023". Bowls International. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- ^ "Events and Results, World Championships 2023 Gold Coast, Australia". World Bowls. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- ^ "SCHEDULE & DRAWS". Bowls Australia. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- ^ "Caroline aims for gold at 2022 Commonwealth Games | NHS Lanarkshire". nhslanarkshire. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
External links
[edit]- Caroline Brown at North Lanarkshire Sporting Hall Of Fame
- Caroline Brown at Team Scotland
- Caroline Brown at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Caroline Brown at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Caroline Brown at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Caroline Brown at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games