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Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
Born | [1] | 8 February 1999||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
Club | Inverurie BC (outdoors) Garioch IBC (indoors) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Carla Banks (born 1999) is a Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Banks won the 2015 Under 18 National Singles and the 2017 Under 25 National Singles.[1]
In 2020, she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia, as the women's team travelling reserve but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] She made her debut at the World Indoor Championships during the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship[3] and reached the mixed pairs final with Robert Paxton before losing out to Stewart Anderson and Julie Forrest in the final.[4]
In 2023, she was selected as part of the team to represent Scotland at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[5] She participated in the women's triples and the women's fours events.[6][7] In the fours, her team won the bronze medal.
Her father Colin Banks and her brother Jason Banks are both international bowlers.[2][8]