Anna Pretorius

Anna Pretorius is a South African former international lawn bowler. She won a gold medal in the women's fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, playing alongside Colleen Grondein, Lorna Trigwell and Hester Bekker. The win mattered beyond the result, because it was the first time South Africa had won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games since 1958. South Africa had been absent since 1961 under a Commonwealth ban linked to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and had only just returned to the Games. Her daughter, Linda Ralph, later emigrated to New Zealand and won a national bowls title there, so bowling success has run through two generations of the family.