Jean Valls
{{Short description|British lawn bowler}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| club = Raynes Park & Surrey
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{{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 1985 Melbourne | pairs }}
{{MedalBronze | 1985 Melbourne | fours }}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalBronze|1986 Edinburgh| pairs}}
{{MedalCompetition|British Isles Championships}}
{{MedalGold|1984|singles}}
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Jean Valls is a former England international lawn and indoor bowler.{{cite web|url=http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2562|title=Profile|publisher=Bowls Tawa}}
Bowls career
Valls won two bronze medals in the pairs and fours at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne in addition to winning a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/bowls.htm|title=COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS|publisher=GBR Athletics}}
She also won three National Titles; (singles 1983),{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004974/19830812/025/0025 |title=Bowls |work=Western Daily Press |date=12 August 1983 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=18 August 2023}} (pairs 1982{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS254118672/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=dd962603 |title=Allan, G. (1982) 'Bowls' |date=16 Aug 1982 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=25 Aug 2023 |page=15 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }} & 1983).{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS336301327/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=7ee892d5 |title='A notable double' |date=15 Aug 1983 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=25 Aug 2023 |page=20 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }} She subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1984.{{cite web|url=https://britishislesbowls.com/history-of-the-bibc/previous-winners/|title=Previous Winners|publisher=British Isles Bowls Council}}{{cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Patrick|title=Guinness Bowls Records|year=1986|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd|isbn=0-85112-414-3}} Valls was runner-up in the fours in 1976.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004974/19760811/012/0012 |title=Ilminster go out |work=Western Daily Press |date=11 August 1976 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=27 August 2023}}
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Category:English female bowls players
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games