Eileen Bell (bowls)
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| Born | 1936 (age 88–89) Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Belfast BC/Shaws Bridge BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eileen Bell (born 1936)[1] is a former Irish lawn and indoor bowler.
Bowls career
Bell started bowling in the sixties in her home town of Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland. Bell won the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship pairs Gold in Toronto when partnering Nan Allely. She bowled for the Belfast BC (outdoors) and Shaws Bridge (indoors).
Bell is the winner of nine Irish National Bowls Championships and has been three times British Isles Bowls Championships singles title holder (1974, 1983 & 1986), a record only bettered by fellow Irish bowler Margaret Johnston. In addition she has also won a triples and fours title.[2][3]
References
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2020.