Lindsey Greechan

Lindsey Greechan is an international lawn bowls player from Jersey. She became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2008.[1]

Lindsey Greechan
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Jersey)
Born (1981-03-22) 22 March 1981
Jersey
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubSt Brelade BC
Medal record
Representing  Jersey
World Singles Champion of Champions
2008 Aberdeen Women's Singles
British Isles Bowls Championships
2008 Belfast Women's Singles
IIBC Championships
2002 Women's U25 Singles
2004 Women's U25 Singles
2005 Mixed U25 Pairs
2006 Women's U25 Singles
2008 Mixed Pairs
2014 Women's Singles
Atlantic Rim Games
2007 Ayr Women's Fours

Bowls career

Commonwealth Games

Lindsey Greechan represented Jersey in lawn bowls at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[2] With Katie Nixon, the pair lost to Northern Ireland in the pairs bronze medal match 15–14. Had they won the match, they would have been Jersey's first medalists at the Commonwealth Games for 24 years.[3][4]

Other events

She became the first bowls player from Jersey to win a IIBC Championships at any level in 2002, when she won the Junior Ladies title.[5] She helped Jersey defeat England in a test series for the first time in 2004.[6] At the Atlantic Rim Games in 2007, Lindsey won gold with Jersey in the women's fours event.[7][8] In 2008, she came away with a bronze medal at the women's World Singles Champion of Champions event.[9][10]

Lindsey has won Jersey's women's outdoor Bowler of the Year three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2012.[11] Her mother, Gina Le Long, father, Peter Le Long, and brother, Kevin Le Long, have all played or play bowls competitively as well at national and international level for Jersey.[12][13][14]

Family
Main article: The Greechans

Greechan is part of a successful bowls family that includes her husband Thomas and daughter Chloe.

References
  1. "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
  2. "Lindsey Greechan". Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  3. "Medal agony for Jersey pair". Jersey Evening Post. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  4. "Athletes Biography". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  5. "Jersey wins first world title at World Singles CoC" (PDF). Epoch Times. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  6. "Bowls:England edged out - by Jersey". Jersey Evening Post. 11 October 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  7. "Bowls: Reds' Atlantic storm". Jersey Evening Post. 23 July 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  8. "Jersey team's World Bowls bid in New Zealand". Jersey Evening Post. 5 January 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  9. "Lindsey Greechan". Bowls Titles of the World. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  10. "Malloy narrowly beaten to gold". Herald Scotland. 8 September 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  11. "Ladies Bowler of the Year Winner". BJA. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  12. "Eyebrows raised in Ballymena over absence of world champion from Jersey's bowls team". Jersey Evening Post. 19 June 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  13. "Shaw takes the plaudits". Jersey Evening Post. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  14. "Bowls:No final joy for Quémard". Jersey Evening Post. 29 June 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.