Joyce Lindores
{{Short description|British lawn bowler}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Joyce Lindores
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| birth_name = Joyce Scott
| nationality = British (Scottish)
| birth_place = Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland{{cite news|last1=Wylie|first1=Kathryn|title=Tributes paid to champion bowler Joyce Lindores|url=http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/tributes-paid-to-champion-bowler-joyce-lindores-1-4489804|accessdate=30 July 2017|work=The Southern Reporter|date=29 June 2017|language=en}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|6|18 |1944|2|5|df=yes}}
| death_place = Melbourne, Australia
| club = Ettrick Forest
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{{MedalCompetition|World Outdoor Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2000 Moama|Pairs}}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalGold| 1998 Kuala Lumpur|Pairs}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Bowls Championships}}
{{MedalGold|1995 Cumbernauld|Singles}}
{{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|1997 Llandrindod Wells|triples}}
{{MedalGold|1999 Cape Town|pairs}}
{{MedalSilver|2005 Bangor|pairs}}
{{MedalSilver|2005 Bangor|fours}}
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Joyce Scott Lindores (2 May 1944 – 18 June 2017) was a Scottish international indoor and lawn bowler.
Bowls career
Lindores won the Women's singles at the 1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship defeating Margaret Johnston in the final.{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF502128017&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title="Lindores wins." Times [London, England] 8 April 1995|work=The Times|url-access=registration }} Three years later she won the pairs gold medal with Margaret Letham at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/20638665|title=Margaret Letham leads Scots to fours gold at World Bowls|date=7 December 2012 |publisher=BBC Sport}} The pair then won the pairs title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Moama, Australia.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/20000316/554/0050 |title=Scots duos' world crown |work=Aberdeen Evening Express |date=16 March 2000 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 November 2024 }}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results.html|title=2005 Atlantic Rim Games|publisher=World Bowls Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111132351/http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results.html|access-date=23 May 2021|archive-date=2006-01-11}}
She also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1988 and 1997 and the pairs in 1993 bowling for Ettrick Forest.{{cite web|url=https://www.bowlsscotland.com/previous-winners|title=Previous Winners|publisher=Bowls Scotland|access-date=21 April 2021|archive-date=4 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404184426/https://www.bowlsscotland.com/previous-winners|url-status=dead}}
Lindores remained in Melbourne after the 2006 Commonwealth Games held there. She died on 18 June 2017 in Melbourne.{{cite web |url=http://www.bowlsscotland.com/news/sad-news-of-scottish-internationalist-joyce-lindores/ |title=Sad news of Scottish Internationalist – Joyce Lindores |publisher=Bowls Scotland |accessdate=25 June 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mulgravecc.com.au/transfers/bowls/Breaking-News.pdf |title=Mulgrave Country Club: Breaking News |publisher=Mulgrave Country Club |date=22 June 2017 |last=Miller |first=Sue |accessdate=22 June 2017}}
References
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Category:Scottish female bowls players
Category:Bowls World Champions
Category:Scottish emigrants to Australia
Category:Sportspeople from Galashiels
Category:Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Category:Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland
Category:Indoor Bowls World Champions
Category:Bowls European Champions
Category:Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games