Cis Winstanley
{{Short description|New Zealand lawn bowls competitor}}
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| birth_place = Egremont, Cumberland, England
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| club = Marewa BC
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{{MedalSport|Women's lawn bowls}}
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{{MedalCompetition|World Outdoor Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 1973 Wellington|triples}}
{{MedalGold| 1973 Wellington|fours}}
{{MedalGold | 1973 Wellington|team }}
{{MedalSilver| 1977 Worthing|triples}}
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Cissie Winstanley {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (née Lithgow, 26 December 1908 – 25 July 2006){{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 2006/18185 |website=Births, deaths and marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |accessdate=6 April 2019}} was an international lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.{{cite book|last=Newby|first=Donald|title=Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91|year=1990|publisher=Telegraph Publications|isbn=0-330-31664-8}}
Bowls career
She won the triples and fours gold medal at the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington, New Zealand and also won the gold medal in the team event (Taylor Trophy).{{cite book|last=Hawkes/Lindley|first=Ken/Gerard|title=the Encyclopaedia of Bowls|year=1974|publisher=Robert Hale and Company|isbn=0-7091-3658-7}} Four years later she won a silver medal in the triples at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing, England.{{cite web|url=https://bowlstawa.nz/titles/players/titles/1067|title=Profile|publisher=Bowls Tawa}} An additional bronze medal was won in the team event.
Winstanley won 15 New Zealand National Bowls Championships;{{cite web|url=http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/Inductees/W/Cis-Winstanley|title=Profile|publisher=New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame}} (Singles – 1965, 1968, 1973; Pairs – 1957, 1958, 1959, 1965, 1984; Fours – 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1977, 1978) all when bowling for the Marewa Bowls Club.{{cite web|url=https://bowlstawa.nz/titles/orgs/titles/2/w|title=New Zealand Championships|publisher=Bowls Tawa}}
Honours and awards
In the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours, Winstanley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowling.{{London Gazette |date=14 June 1975 |supp=3 |issue=46595 |pages=7407}} She was inducted into the New Zealand Sport Hall of Fame in 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.bowlsmanawatu.co.nz/manawatu-lawn-bowls/bowls-legends-honoured-at-inaugural-hall-of-fame-celebration/|title=Bowls Legends Honoured|publisher=Bowls Manawatu|access-date=18 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819062357/http://www.bowlsmanawatu.co.nz/manawatu-lawn-bowls/bowls-legends-honoured-at-inaugural-hall-of-fame-celebration/|archive-date=19 August 2017|url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
- {{New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame}}
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Category:New Zealand female bowls players
Category:Bowls World Champions
Category:New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Sportspeople from Egremont, Cumbria
Category:English emigrants to New Zealand