Sharon Sims
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Nationality | New Zealander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1952-05-24) 24 May 1952 (age 72) Te Kōpuru, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Northern BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sharon Elmar Sims MNZM (born 24 May 1952) is a New Zealand lawn bowls international.
Bowls career
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Jo Edwards in the women's pairs event. At the World Bowls Championships in 2000 she was a triples and fours champion, and in 2004 a pairs champion.[1][2]
She won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, four of which have been gold medals.[3]
Sims won the 2002 & 2005 singles title and the 1993, 2006, 2007 & 2009 pairs title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Hamilton Bowls Club.[4]
Honours and awards
In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sims was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to lawn bowls.[5] In 2013, she was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[6]
References
- ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2007". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 June 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^ "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.
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