Sharon Sims
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| Nationality | New Zealander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 May 1952 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
[edit]At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Jo Edwards in the women's pairs event.[1] At the World Bowls Championships in 2000 she was a triples and fours champion,[2] and in 2004 a pairs champion.[3]
She won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, four of which have been gold medals.[4]
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.[5]
Honours and awards
[edit]In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sims was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to lawn bowls.[6] In 2013, she was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^ "Bowls: Women's four win but Castle suffers two losses in singles". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
- ^ "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.
- Living people
- 1952 births
- New Zealand female bowls players
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- Bowls World Champions
- People from Te Kōpuru
- Sportspeople from the Northland Region
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games