Katherine Rednall

Katherine Rednall (born 7 January 1996) is an English lawn and indoor bowler from Stowmarket. She is record five times women's world indoor singles champion.

Katherine Rednall
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born (1996-01-07) 7 January 1996
Ipswich, England
Sport
ClubIpswich & District (indoors)
Felixstowe & Suffolk BC (outdoors)[1]
Medal record
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place2018 Gold Coasttriples
World Indoor Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 Yarmouthsingles
Gold medal – first place2016 Yarmouthmixed pair
Gold medal – first place2017 Yarmouthsingles
Gold medal – first place2018 Yarmouthsingles
Silver medal – second place2021 Yarmouthsingles
Gold medal – first place2022 Yarmouthsingles
Gold medal – first place2023 Yarmouthsingles
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Guernsey mixed four
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Guernsey team

Bowls career

Indoors

Rednall became the youngest ever winner of a World Indoor Bowls title after she won the 2014 World Indoor Bowls Championship Women's Singles at the age of just 18.[2] Rednall reached the final of the 2015 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing out to Laura Thomas in the decider.[3] Rednall experienced further success after winning the Mixed Pairs title in 2016 with bowls partner Darren Burnett.[4]

She won a second singles title in 2017 after defeating Ellen Falkner in the final [5] and a third singles title during the 2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship defeating Rebecca Field in the final.[6]

During the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship she was seven months pregnant and performed well reaching the women's final, the mixed pairs semi final and was also the first woman to reach the Open singles quarter final.[7][8] The following year during the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, she won a record breaking fourth singles title.[9][10]

At the 2023 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Rednall won her fifth women's singles to extend her record, she fought back after losing the first set to defeat Ceri Ann Glen in the tie break set.[11]

Outdoors

She was selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland[12] where she won a bronze medal in the Triples with Ellen Falkner and Sian Honnor.[13] In 2019, she won two bronze medals at the European Bowls Championships.[14]

In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.[15]

Personal life

Rednall is the daughter of England international John Rednall.[16] She studied for a degree in fashion and textiles at the University of Essex and enjoys playing the saxophone.[13]

References
  1. "Profile". Heneslite.
  2. "Rednall Becomes Youngest ever winner". BBC Sport.
  3. "Rednall through to final". Ipswich Star.
  4. "Burnett & Rednall win mixed pairs". BBC Sport.
  5. "World Indoor Bowls Championship 2017: Rednall beats Falkner to win second title". BBC Sport.
  6. "World Indoor Bowls Championship 2018: Rednall beats Field to win third title". BBC Sport.
  7. "Wales' Laura Daniels wins World Indoor Bowls final". BBC. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  8. "Daniels recovers from dropping first set to win ladies singles title at World Indoor Bowls Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  9. "Stowmarket's Katherine Rednall puts in dominant display against Alison Merrien to win World Indoor Bowls Championship Ladies' Singles title for record fourth time". Suffolk News. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  10. "World Indoor Bowls Championship 2021: Katherine Rednall delighted by fourth singles title". BBC. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  11. "Stowmarket's Katherine Rednall wins a final tie-break to claim a record-extending fifth ladies' title in the World Indoor Bowls Championship". Suffolk News. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  12. "2018 Commonwealth Games team". Team England.
  13. "Katherine Rednall Commonwealth Games profile". 2018 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  14. "2019 results". Bowls Europe. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  15. "SELECTION: 2020 WORLD BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIPS". Bowls England.
  16. "THE EXTRA END PODCAST EPISODE 5 – JOHN AND KATHERINE REDNALL". Bowls England. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
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