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Jennie Simpson (bowls)

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Jennie Simpson
Personal information
NationalityNew Zealander
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1982 Brisbane triples
Asia Pacific Bowls Championships
Silver medal – second place 1987 Lae fours

Jennifer Simpson is a lawn bowls international player from New Zealand, who represented New Zealand at two Commonwealth Games.[1][2]

Bowls career

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Simpson played in the team that won the silver medal in the triples event with Pearl Dymond and Joyce Osborne at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. Four years later she represented New Zealand again at the Lawn bowls at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[3][4]

She won a silver medal at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in 1987.[5]

Personal life

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Her daughter Debbie White won the New Zealand national championship in 2019.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  2. ^ "Profile". New Zealand Olympic Team.
  3. ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  4. ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
  5. ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Debbie White storms home to take national bowls title, Horn wins men's". Stuff.co.nz.
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