Rebecca Field
Personal information
NicknameBex[1]
NationalityBritish (English)
Born1990[2][3]
York, Yorkshire, England[2]
Medal record
Representing  England
World Indoor Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 singles
Silver medal – second place 2014 singles
Silver medal – second place 2016 singles
Silver medal – second place 2018 singles
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Israel pairs
Gold medal – first place 2015 Israel mixed pairs
Gold medal – first place 2015 Israel team

Rebecca Field married name Rebecca Willgress is an English international lawn & indoor bowls player. Field was the 2013 World Indoor singles champion.

Personal life

Field starting playing bowls at the age of eight,[5][6] in her local village hall in York,[2] giving the short mat game a go.[6] She was attracted to the sport following a big drive in the 1990s to get people playing indoor bowls in their communities.[2] Subsequent moves to Boston, Lincolnshire with her family and then to study at the University of East Anglia in Norwich only increased her appetite for the game.[2] Field has language degrees in French and Spanish and currently works for a Norwich-based marketing firm.[2]

Field is a supporter of the Championship team Norwich City Football Club.[3]

Bowls career

Indoors

Field plays and competes for the Norfolk Bowling Club in Norwich.[7] She competed as a junior (U25) international player for several years[7] and won multiple titles. Amongst her accomplishments as a junior, is being a two-time English and British Isles indoor singles champion.

Field first competed for the England senior ladies team at indoor level in 2011,[7] when she was named in the squad for the BIWIBC International Series.[8] Field competed at her first World Indoor Championships in 2012 in the ladies singles event.[2] Organisers invited Field to the competition after being impressed with her recent rise in the sport.[2]

Field reached her first World Indoor Bowls ladies singles final in 2013, defeating Alison Merrien in a tie-break set[9] becoming the youngest ever winner of the event at 23.[5] The victory gained Field a wild card entry into the WBT International Open and direct qualification for the World Indoor Championships in 2014,[1] where she was beaten by 18-year-old Katherine Rednall in the final.[10]

Field was twice runner-up in the 2016 World Indoor Bowls Championship and 2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing to Ellen Falkner and Katherine Rednall respectively.[11][12]

Outdoors

Field won her first outdoor titles, winning the ladies two-wood singles and junior pairs events at the National Championships in 2014.[13][14] She first competed for the England senior ladies team at outdoor level in 2015, when she was named in the squad for BWIBC International Series.[15] Also at outdoor level in 2015, Field was selected to represent England at the European Team Championships and Atlantic Rim Games.[16] She won gold in the ladies pairs, mixed fours and team events at the European Team Championships.[17]

In 2018, she finished runner-up to Amy Gowshall in the National Two Wood Singles.[18] Five years later, she won another national title at the 2023 Bowls England National Finals, partnering her husband Wayne in the mixed pairs.[19]

Titles and finals

1The Gedling Trophy is awarded to the best overall performing nation.

Awards

Personal life

Her husband is England international Wayne Willgress.[86]

References

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  4. ^ a b Norfolk’s Rebecca Field takes World Women’s Matchplay Singles bowls title EDP24. 25-01-2013. Retrieved 30-01-2015.
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  10. ^ a b Katherine Rednall is youngest World Indoor Bowls winner BBC Sport. 23-01-2014. Retrieved 25-01-2015.
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