Margaret Elizabeth Letham (born 21 June 1956) is a female lawn and indoor bowler. From Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in Scotland and started bowling at the age of 15.[1]
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 June 1956 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burbank Hamilton BC (outdoors) Blantyre Miners Welfare (indoors) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bowls career
editWorld Outdoor Championships
editLetham has won medals at four World Outdoor Championships.[2] Starting with a pairs gold with Joyce Lindores in 2000 in Moama, Australia,[3] and then a singles bronze four years later in Leamington Spa. The third medal came eight years later when she was part of the four that won gold in Adelaide, the four consisted of Letham, Caroline Brown, Lynn Stein and Michelle Cooper. At the same event she also won the pairs bronze partnering Claire Johnston.
Commonwealth Games
editShe won gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had competed in five consecutive Commonwealth Games for Scotland from 1998 until 2014.[4]
International
editIn 1999 she won the singles silver medal and pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[5][6]
Six years later in 2005, she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the Championships[7] and in 2007 she a second pairs gold medal at the Championships.[8][9] In 2009 she won her third pairs gold medal[10][11] before winning a fourth pairs gold medal (and seventh medal in total) at the 2011 Championships in Paphos.[12]
In 2008, she won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title.[13]
National
editLetham has won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title on two occasions in 1999 and 2019.[14] In 2022, she won the women's singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships.[15]
References
edit- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Margaret Letham Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Margaret Letham leads Scots to fours gold at World Bowls". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Scots duos' world crown". Aberdeen Evening Express. 16 March 2000. Retrieved 9 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "'Johnston maintains dominance' (1999)". The Times. 29 March 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'For the Record' (1999)". The Times. 25 March 1999. p. 53. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2005 Atlantic Rim Games". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 January 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "2007 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 July 2007. p. 61. Retrieved 20 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "HK Classic winners Women's singles". HKLBA. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ "Second stage results". Bowls Scotland.
- ^ "Scotland clinch five British Isles titles". Bowls Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2022.