Margaret Pomeroy

Margaret Pomeroy

Personal information
Nationality	British (Welsh)
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Howard Gardens Sophia Gardens
Medal record Representing  Wales World Outdoor Championships 1977 Worthing triples 1977 Worthing fours 1977 Worthing team 1988 Auckland fours British Isles Championships 1986 pairs 1989 pairs 1976 triples 1981 triples

Margaret Pomeroy is a Welsh former international lawn and indoor bowls competitor.[1]

Bowls career

World Championships

In 1977 she won the gold medal in the triples with Enid Morgan and Joan Osborne, bronze medal in the fours with Morgan, Osborne and Janet Ackland and a silver medal in the team event (Taylor Trophy), at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[2] In 1980, she took part in the world championship qualifier at the Whitnash Bowls Club for the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Canada.[3]

Eleven years later she won a bronze medal at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland.

National

Pomeroy has won 12 titles at the Welsh National Bowls Championships (1965, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1981 singles; 1969, 1975, 1982, 1985, 1988 pairs; 1979, 1985 triples) when bowling for the Howard Gardens and Sophia Gardens Bowls Clubs respectively.[4] and seven indoor National titles, three in the pairs, three in the triples and one in the fours.[5]

References

1. Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
2. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
3. "Top bowlers at ladies' championship". Banbury Guardian. 19 June 1980. Retrieved 23 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
5. "Competitions - Past Winners & Players". WLIBA.