Carol Gianotti

Carol Gianotti, of Perth, is a female Australian ten-pin bowler who won 16 professional women's bowling titles between 1989 and 2000, tied for 13th all time. She won gold and silver medals at the 1985 Asian Youth Championships in Jakarta, represented Australia at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games when bowling was a demonstration sport, and debuted on the PWBA Tour in 1989 at age 21, winning the WIBC Queens major in her first appearance. She was PWBA Rookie of the Year that season, won four titles in 1992, and in 1998 won two titles and led the tour in earnings and average to take her only Player of the Year award. At the 2009 World Women's Championships in Las Vegas she won silver and bronze in doubles with Ann-Maree Putney. She entered the USBC Hall of Fame in 2011, the Tenpin Bowling Australia Hall of Fame in 2016 and the PWBA Hall of Fame in 2020, the first Australian woman in the American halls.