Jo Edwards
{{Short description|New Zealand lawn bowler}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
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| name = Jo Edwards
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=100%}}
| image = Jo Edwards MNZM (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Edwards in 2014
| nationality = New Zealander
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|2|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Clatterbridge, England
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{{MedalSport | Lawn bowls }}
{{MedalCountry | {{NZL}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 2004 Leamington Spa | Pairs }}
{{MedalGold | 2008 Christchurch | Pairs }}
{{MedalSilver| 2012 Adelaide | Pairs}}
{{MedalSilver| 2016 Christchurch | Pairs}}
{{MedalBronze| 2016 Christchurch | Singles}}
{{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }}
{{MedalGold | 2002 Manchester | Pairs }}
{{MedalGold | 2014 Glasgow | Singles }}
{{MedalGold | 2018 Gold Coast|Singles}}
{{MedalCompetition | Asia Pacific Bowls Championships }}
{{MedalGold|2001 Melbourne|pairs}}
{{MedalSilver|2001 Melbourne|fours}}
{{MedalGold|2003 Brisbane|fours}}
{{MedalBronze|2005 Melbourne|singles}}
{{MedalGold|2011 Adelaide|pairs}}
{{MedalGold|2011 Adelaide|fours}}
{{MedalBronze|2015 Christchurch|singles}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Gold Coast|singles}}
{{MedalBronze|2019 Gold Coast|pairs}}
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Joanna Edwards {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (born 5 February 1970) is a New Zealand international lawn bowls competitor. She has won two world titles and three Commonwealth Games gold medals.
Bowls career
= Outdoors =
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Sharon Sims in the women's pairs event.[https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/jo-edwards Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website] She has twice won the gold medal at the World Outdoor Bowls Championships in the pairs events: in 2004 with Sharon Sims;{{cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/bowls-womens-four-win-but-castle-suffers-two-losses-in-singles/OPFHUKDN7JUSQ7KZPHBEDA22J4/ |title=Bowls: Women's four win but Castle suffers two losses in singles |publisher=New Zealand Herald |access-date=10 November 2024 }} and in 2008 with Val Smith.
In 2014 she won a second Commonwealth Games gold medal after winning the women's singles in Glasgow.
In 2016, she won a bronze medal at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch in the singles and a silver medal with Angela Boyd in the pairs.{{cite web|url=http://www.burnsidebowlingclub.com/2016WorldBowlsChampionshipFinalsResults.html|title=2016 World Bowls Championship Finals|publisher=Burnside Bowling Club}}
She was selected as part of the New Zealand team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland,{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11982551|title=Bowls: New Zealand team named for Commonwealth Games|publisher=New Zealand Herald}} where she claimed a gold medal in the Singles.
In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.{{cite web|url=https://bowlsnewzealand.co.nz/event-news/blackjacks-selected-for-world-championships-2020/|title=Blackjacks Selected for World Championships 2020|date=10 February 2020|publisher=Bowls New Zealand|access-date=20 February 2020|archive-date=17 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717073202/https://bowlsnewzealand.co.nz/event-news/blackjacks-selected-for-world-championships-2020/|url-status=dead}}
In addition to World Bowls and Commonwealth Games success she has won five gold medals and (nine medals in total) at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships{{cite web|url=https://sportsdesq.sportstg.com/portal/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&OrgID=16084|title=Results Portal|publisher=Bowls Australia}} and excelled at the 2015 APL (Australian Premier League), she was the only woman competing in the eight-team tournament featuring 24 of the world's top players and played alongside her countrymen Ali Forsyth and Shannon McIlroy to win the title at Club Pine Rivers.{{Cite news |title=Lawn bowls: Jo Edwards stars in Blackjacks triumph |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11546648 |newspaper=New Zealand Herald |date=17 November 2015 |access-date=30 December 2015 |issn=1170-0777 |language=en-NZ |first=Steve |last=Landells}}
=Indoors=
Edwards has won six World Cup Singles titles (a women's record) with the latest success being in 2019. Previous wins were in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowls.com/2019/03/13/world-cup-indoor-singles-day-9/|title=World Cup indoor singles – Day 9|publisher=Bowls International}}
Honours
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Edwards was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to lawn bowls.{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2014 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2014 |date=2 June 2014 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=9 April 2018}}
References
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External links
- {{NZOC profile}}
- {{2018 Commonwealth Games profile|lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6022755-jo-edwards}}
- {{2014 Commonwealth Games profile|lawn_bowls/1025579/j_edwards}}
- {{2006 Commonwealth Games profile|105613|Joanna Edwards}}
- {{CGF profile|63741|Joanna Edwards}}
{{2002 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{2006 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{2014 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
{{2018 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team}}
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Category:New Zealand female bowls players
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
Category:Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Category:Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Category:Bowls World Champions
Category:Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games