Azlina Arshad

Arshad has won three World Championship medals; a bronze medal in the fours at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand, a silver medal in the fours at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide and in 2016, a bronze medal with Nor Hashimah Ismail and Nur Fidrah Noh in the triples at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch.^[1] In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia, which resulted in cancellation following the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

In 2023, she was selected by the Malaysian national team, to represent them at the sport's blue riband event, the 2023 World Bowls Championship.^[3] She participated in the women's triples and the women's fours events.^[4][5] The Malaysian team ranked seventh in the world at the start of the tournament, were given the target of reaching the semi finals.^[6]

Azlina won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the women's triples. Eight years later she competed in both the women's triples and women's fours events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She failed to qualify from the group stages in the women's triples event but won a silver medal in the women's fours.^[7][8]

In 2022, she competed in the women's triples and the Women's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.^[9] She won the silver medal in the triples with Syafiqa Haidar Afif Abdul Rahman and Nur Ain Nabilah Tarmizi.^[10]

Arshad has won eleven Asia Pacific Bowls Championships medals. Included in the haul of medals is four gold medals and a double silver at the 2019 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the Gold Coast, Queensland in the triples and fours.^[11][12]

Arshad has won three gold medals in the pairs and triples (twice) at the Lawn bowls at the Southeast Asian Games.