Alison Jayne Merrien, born on 28 November 1974, is a bowls player from Saint Peter Port in Guernsey who has been among the leading women in indoor bowls, reaching world number 11 in June 2024. She won the World Singles Champion of Champions in 2007 and double gold at the 2011 World Indoor Bowls Championship in the women's singles and, with Simon Skelton, the mixed pairs. She added the 2022 mixed pairs title with Paul Foster at the World Bowls Indoor Championships, two World Cup Singles titles in 2008 and 2012, and many British Isles indoor titles. She was appointed MBE in the 2012 New Year Honours, carried Guernsey's flag at the 2026 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony and won silver in the women's singles there.
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is an indoor bowls player from Saint Peter Port, Guernsey
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she won the silver medal in the women's singles
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Merrien won double gold in the women's singles defeating Karen Murphy and the mixed pairs with Simon Skelton the 2011 World Indoor Bowls Championship.
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is an indoor bowls player from Saint Peter Port, Guernsey
Competed In: Commonwealth Games, Bowls career, 2026 Games
On the final day of the Games, she won the silver medal in the women's singles, losing to England's Katherine Rednall in the final.
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