Caroline Brown (bowls)

Caroline Brown (born 27 August 1980) is a Scottish international indoor and lawn and indoor bowls player.[1]

Caroline Brown
Personal information
NationalityScottish
Born (1980-08-27) 27 August 1980
Bellshill
Sport
SportBowls
ClubMotherwell BC (outdoors)
Blantyre Miners Welfare (indoors)
Medal record
Women's bowls
Representing  Scotland
World Outdoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Adelaide Women's fours
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Adelaide Women's triples
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2018 Gold CoastWomen's triples
World Indoor Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Yarmouth Women's singles
Atlantic Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place2009 Johannesburgpairs
Silver medal – second place2019 Cardifftriples
Bronze medal – third place2019 Cardiffsingles
World Cup Singles
Gold medal – first place2014 Warillasingles
British Isles Championships
Gold medal – first place2011singles

Bowls career

Brown won the 2007 World Indoor Bowls Championship women's singles and five years later who won a gold and bronze medal at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[2]

In 2009 she won the pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[3][4]

After winning the 2010 Scottish National Bowls Championships she subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2011.[5]

She won the gold medal at the 2014 World Cup Singles in Warilla, New South Wales, Australia.[6][7]

In 2018 she was selected as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland that won a silver medal in the Triples with Kay Moran and Stacey McDougall.[1] In 2019 she won the triples silver medal and singles bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[8]

In 2022, she competed in the women's triples and the Women's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[9]

References
  1. "2018 Commonwealth Games profile". Team Scotland.
  2. "Caroline Brown spotlight". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  3. "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  4. "Bowls". The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  5. "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
  6. "Past results" (PDF). World Bowls.com.
  7. "Caroline Brown becomes first Scottish woman to win World Cup in Australia". Bowls Scotland. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  8. "2019 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  9. "Official Games profile". 2022 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
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