Shirley King
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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Llandrindod Wells BC | |||||||||||||||||
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Shirley King is a former international lawn bowler from Wales who competed at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
King was a member of the Llandrindod Wells Bowls Club[1] and represented Wales at international level.[2]
King represented the Welsh team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia,[3] where she competed in the pairs event, with Gill Miles.[4]
She was five-times triples champion of Wales at the Welsh National Bowls Championships in 1990, 1991, 2001, 2014 and 2015,[5] and subsequently qualified to represent Wales at the British Isles Bowls Championships, winning the triples title in 1991 and 2015.[6]
In August 2025, she made her 250th appearance for mid Wales.[7]
References
- ^ "It's All Go For The Flying Five". South Wales Echo. 15 April 1995. p. 41. Retrieved 10 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Ladies join bowl squad". Shropshire Star. 23 May 2001. p. 27. Retrieved 10 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Wales Commonwealth Games squad". BBC Sport. 5 March 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ^ "Wales Melbourne 2006". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ^ "WBA Handbook" (PDF). Welsh Bowls.
- ^ "History". British Isles Council. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ^ "250 Appearances". Llandrindod Wells Bowls Club. Retrieved 10 January 2026.