Cis Winstanley

Cissie Winstanley, born Cissie Lithgow, lived from 26 December 1908 to 25 July 2006 and was an international lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand. At the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington she won gold in the triples and the fours and also gold in the team event, the Taylor Trophy. Four years later, at the 1977 championship in Worthing, England, she won silver in the triples and bronze in the team event. She won fifteen New Zealand national bowls championships while bowling for the Marewa Bowls Club. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours and was inducted into the New Zealand Sport Hall of Fame in 1996.