Frances Whyte
Scottish lawn bowler
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Janet "Frances" M. Whyte (born 22 September 1933) is a former international lawn and indoor bowler from Scotland who won world championship golds and competed at three Commonwealth Games.[2]
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 September 1930[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Priorscroft BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Whyte won a gold medal in the fours at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne. Seven years later she won two more golds in both the triples and the fours at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[3]
She also competed at the Commonwealth Games in bowls events at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4]
Whyte represented the Scottish team[1] at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[5][6] where she competed in the pairs event, with Sarah Gourlay.[7]
In 1993 she won the fours gold medal at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships.[8][9]
A third Commonwealth Games appearance ensued in the bowl events at the 1994 Commonwealth Games..[3]
One year later she repeated the Atlantic Bowls success winning the fours gold again in Durban.[10][11]