Sandy Hazell

{{Short description|English indoor and lawn bowler (born 1965)}}

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Sandy Hazell is an English international indoor and lawn bowler.

Bowls career

Hazell won the women's singles at the 1996 World Indoor Bowls Championship{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF502163611&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title="Hazell stakes claim for England call." Times [London, England] 22 Apr. 1996|work=The Times}} before representing England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games where she won, with Jamie-Lea Winch and Sian Gordon, a bronze medal in the woman's triples competition.{{cite web|url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/sheppeys-commonwealth-games-bow-a79002/|title=Sheppey's Commonwealth Games bowls hero Sandy Hazell has unfinished business|date=30 December 2010 |publisher=Kent Online}}

In 2012, she won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title.{{cite web | url=https://www.hklba.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147&Itemid=218&lang=en| title=HK Classic winners Women's singles | publisher=HKLBA | access-date=10 June 2021}} Two years later in 2014, she was appointed England captain.{{cite web|url=http://www.bowlsinternational.com/view_article.asp?id=6870|title=England Senior Women's 2014 Team Announced|publisher=Bowls International}}

In 2023, she was named as the England team manager for the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.{{cite web|url=https://www.bowlsengland.com/birmingham-2022-stars-lead-world-championships-bid/ |title=BIRMINGHAM 2022 STARS LEAD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BID |date=25 April 2023 |publisher=Bowls England |access-date=18 May 2023}}

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