Dorothy Roche

Dorothy Edna Roche (1928 to 11 November 2021) was an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia. She took up bowls in 1975 and within a decade was winning at world level, taking the triples gold and the fours silver at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne. Three years later she won both the triples and the fours at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland. In 1990 she won the women's fours at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland at the age of 61, which made her Australia's oldest Commonwealth Games gold medal winner. She also took three medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, including the 1993 triples gold in Victoria, Canada, and in 1990 she was awarded the Order of Australia for services to bowls.