Betty Forsyth
Personal information
Full nameElizabeth Leishman Forsyth
NationalityBritish (Scottish)
Born(1945-04-06)6 April 1945
DiedMay 2021(2021-05-00) (aged 76)[1]
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubBlantyre BC
Medal record
Women's lawn bowls
Representing  Scotland
World Outdoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2000 Johannesburg Women's Fours
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Victoria Women's Fours
Atlantic Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place 1995 Durban fours
Silver medal – second place 2005 Bangor fours

Elizabeth Leishman Forsyth (6 April 1945 – May 2021) was a Scottish international female lawn and indoor bowler.[2]

Bowls career

Forsyth represented Scotland in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and won a bronze medal,[3] the 1998 Commonwealth Games, 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games.

She also won a fours silver medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa.[4]

In 1995 she won the fours gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships[5][6] and ten years later won the fours silver medal at the Championships.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Obituary: Betty Forsyth, Who Led By Example". Bowls International. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Internationalist Forsyth bows out at first hurdle bowls". Herald Scotland.
  3. ^ "Sporting Digest: Bowls". The Independent.
  4. ^ "World Bowls Championships" (PDF). worldbowls.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Jones, D.R. (1995) 'S Africa's bowlers reclaim top spot'". The Times. 24 April 1995. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  6. ^ "'For the Record' (1995)". The Times. 1 May 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  7. ^ "2005 Atlantic Rim Games". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 January 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2021.

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