Marlene Castle

Marlene Castle

Personal information
Born	(1944-03-13) 13 March 1944 (age 80) Auckland, New Zealand
Spouse	Bruce Castle
Relative	Raelene Castle (daughter)
Sport
Country	New Zealand
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Orewa BC
Medal record Representing  New Zealand World Outdoor Championships 2004 Leamington Spa triples Commonwealth Games 1990 Auckland fours 1994 Victoria fours 2002 Manchester singles World Indoor Championships 2000 Yarmouth singles Asia Pacific Bowls Championships 1989 Suva triples 1989 Suva fours 1991 Kowloon fours 1993 Victoria singles 1995 Dunedin triples 1995 Dunedin fours 1997 Warilla triples 1997 Warilla fours 1999 Kuala Lumpur singles 2001 Melbourne singles 2001 Melbourne triples 2003 Brisbane singles

Marlene Robyn Castle (born 13 March 1944) is a lawn and indoor bowls international for New Zealand.[1]

Bowls career

The veteran of four Commonwealth Games won her first medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, earning a silver in the women's fours. Again as part of the women's fours team she won a bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Her last Commonwealth medal was at the 2002 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze in the women's singles.[2]

Castle has won twelve medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including five gold medals.[3]

Castle won the 2001 pairs title and the 1999 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Orewa Bowls Club.[4]

Awards

In 1990, Castle was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[5] In 2013, she was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[6]

Personal life

Her husband is Bruce Castle, a former New Zealand Kiwis captain, and her daughter Raelene Castle is a sports administrator. Raelene has previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Netball New Zealand and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs,[7] and became the CEO of Rugby Australia in December 2017.[8]

References

1. "Athlete Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
2. Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
3. "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
4. "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
5. Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 93. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
6. "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
7. Castle confirmed as new Bulldogs chief smh.com.au, 29 May 2013
8. "Raelene Castle becomes first female chief executive of Rugby Australia". TheGuardian.com. Australian Associated Press. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.