Margaret Mills
Personal information
Nationality Zimbabwe
Sport
SportLawn bowls
Medal record
Representing  Zimbabwe
World Outdoor Bowls Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1981 Torontotriples
Bronze medal – third place 1981 Torontoteam
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place1982 Brisbanetriples

Margaret Mills is a former Zimbabwean international lawn bowler.[1]

Bowls career

Mills started bowling in 1964 and won double Bronze at the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto in the triples event and team event (Taylor Trophy). The following year she won a historic gold medal for Zimbabwe at the Commonwealth Games because it was the first time that Zimbabwe as a nation competed in the Games.[2]

She played in the team that won the gold medal in the triples event with Anna Bates and Flo Kennedy at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.[3]

Mills went on to compete for Zimbabwe in the fours at both the 1990 and 1994 Commonwealth Games.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  2. ↑ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
  3. 1 2 "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
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