Beth Riva
{{Short description|Scottish lawn and indoor bowler}}
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| nationality = British (Scottish)
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| sport = Indoor and lawn Bowls
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| highestranking = 237 (March 2025){{cite web|url=https://worldbowlsseries.com/female-rankings/ |title=Female rankings |publisher=World Bowls Series |access-date=9 March 2025 }}
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{{MedalSport | Women's Bowls}}
{{MedalCompetition | World Indoor Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 2025 Yarmouth | mixed pairs}}
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Beth Riva (born 2003) is a Scottish bowls player who won the World Championship mixed pairs in 2025.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/articles/cm2153m527no |title=Riva and Banks hailed as 'future of bowls' after world mixed title |publisher=BBC Sport |access-date=21 January 2025 }} She reached a career high ranking of world number 27 in March 2025.{{cite web|url=https://worldbowlsseries.com/female-rankings/ |title=Female rankings |publisher=World Bowls Series |access-date=9 March 2025 }}
Bowls career
In 2022 after being capped as an under-25 Scottish International, Riva was chosen by Team Scotland's Achieve programme to travel to the 2022 Commonwealth Games as part of the Team Scotland experience.{{cite web|url=https://www.bowlsscotland.com/news/2022-achieve-beth-riva |title=2022 Achieve: Beth Riva |publisher=Bowls Scotland |access-date=21 January 2025 }}
Riva teamed up with Jason Banks to win the 2025 World Indoor Bowls Championship mixed pairs title. In the first round the pair defeated Robert Paxton and Lucy Smith in straight sets before winning their semi-final match against Les Gillett and Nicole Rogers again in straight sets.{{cite web|url=https://www.thenational.scot/sport/24872780.giffords-beth-riva-one-match-becoming-bowls-world-champion/ |title=Scottish bowlers one match from becoming bowls world champions |publisher=The National Scot |access-date=21 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/sport/24871548.giffords-beth-riva-one-match-becoming-bowls-world-champion/ |title=Gifford's Beth Riva one match from becoming bowls world champion |publisher=East Lothian Courier |access-date=21 January 2025 }} Riva and Banks then won the final against tournament favourites Paul Foster and Katherine Rednall without dropping a set. Riva was studying law at Edinburgh Napier University at the time. She was also runner-up in the ladies' singles, defeating Chelsea Spencer in the semifinals,{{cite web|url=https://www.lincsonline.co.uk/spalding/sport/world-championship-dreams-dashed-as-chelsea-misses-out-in-te-9401205/|title=Chelsea Spencer from Spalding is beaten by Beth Riva at the World Indoor Bowls Championship|publisher=Lincs Online|accessdate=23 January 2025}} before losing the final to Julie Forrest.{{cite web|url=https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/sport/24880133.beth-riva-runner-up-world-indoor-bowls-championship/|title=Beth Riva runner-up at World Indoor Bowls Championship|publisher=East Lothian Courier|accessdate=23 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/articles/c79dqn44ezwo|title=Forrest clinches World Indoor Bowls singles title|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=23 January 2025}}
Family
Her uncle is six-times world indoor singles champion Alex Marshall.
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Category:Scottish female bowls players
Category:Indoor Bowls World Champions
Category:21st-century Scottish sportswomen
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