Margaret Sumner
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 July 1941 Terang, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 October 2022 (aged 81)[1] Warrnambool, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Margaret Sumner (née Terrington; 7 July 1941 – 16 October 2022) was an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Sumner was born on 7 July 1941.[4] In 1996, she won the gold medal in the fours and silver medal in the triples at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide. Two years later she won a bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the pairs.[5]
Sumner won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including double gold medal in the 1997 triples and fours at Warilla, Australia.[6]
Sumner won the Terang Bowling Club Championship 18 times and married Allan Sumner in 1966.[7]
Sumner died in Warrnambool on 16 October 2022, at the age of 81.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 BV, Team (17 October 2022). "Vale Margaret Sumner OAM". Bowls Victoria. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ↑ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ↑ "Athletes' Profile: Lawn Bowls". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- ↑ Commonwealth Games lawn bowler Margaret Sumner OAM has died
- ↑ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ↑ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ↑ "Profile - Margaret Sumner - Player Legend". TBN Vic Bowls.
Categories:
- 1941 births
- 2022 deaths
- Australian female bowls players
- Bowls World Champions
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bowls players for Australia