Nan Allely
Irish lawn and indoor bowler
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Nan Allely is a former lawn and indoor bowler from Northern Ireland.[1]
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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Donaghadee BC | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Allely bowled for the Donaghadee Bowls Club outdoors[2] and the Shore Street Presbyterian Club indoors.[3] She was the pairs champion of Ireland with Daisy Fraser in 1977 and 1979[4] and triples champion in 1980 at the Irish National Bowls Championships[5][6] and subsequently became the British champion after winning the 1978 pairs at the British Isles Bowls Championships.[7]
Allely won the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship pairs gold in Toronto when partnering Eileen Bell.[8]
Allely represented the Northern Irish team[9] at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia,[10] where she competed in the triples event,[11] with Eileen Bell and Daisy Fraser.[12]
In March 2024, she won a lifetime achievement award at the Ards and North Down Sports Awards ceremony.[13]
