Joyce Lindores | |
Birth Name: | Joyce Scott |
Nationality: | British (Scottish) |
Birth Date: | 2 May 1944[1] |
Birth Place: | Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland[2] |
Death Place: | Melbourne, Australia |
Club: | Ettrick Forest |
Joyce Scott Lindores (2 May 1944 – 18 June 2017) was a Scottish international indoor and lawn bowler.
Lindores won the Women's singles at the 1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship defeating Margaret Johnston in the final.[3] Three years later she won the pairs gold medal with Margaret Letham at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.[4] The pair then won the pairs title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Moama, Australia.
In 2005 she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships in Bangor, previously she had won a triples bronze in 1997 and pairs gold in 1999.[5]
She also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1988 and 1997 and the pairs in 1993 bowling for Ettrick Forest.[6]
Lindores remained in Melbourne after the 2006 Commonwealth Games held there.[1] She died on 18 June 2017 in Melbourne.[7] [8]