Jan Khan | |
Nationality: | New Zealander |
Birth Date: | 25 April 1958 |
Sport: | Bowls |
Club: | Beckenham BC |
Jan Maraea Khan (born 25 April 1958 in Rotorua, New Zealand) is an international lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.[1]
Jan is of Pakistani descent through her father, and of Yugoslav and Maori descent through her mother.[2] [3] Both she and her sister Marina Khan are the daughters of lawn bowler Millie Khan.
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, she won a bronze medal in the women's fours event. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she again won a bronze in the women's pairs event with her sister Marina Khan.[4] [5]
She has won five medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, of which three have been gold medals.[6]
Khan won the 2010 singles title and the 1997, 2000 & 2001 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Beckenham Bowls Club.[7]