Elsie Wilkie

Elsie Hamer Wilkie, born Elsie Fielden on 20 December 1922 in Waihou near Te Aroha, was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who represented her country internationally. She won the singles gold medal and the team gold in the Taylor Trophy at the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington, and successfully defended her singles title at the 1977 championship in Worthing, England, where she also took a team bronze. At national level she won the New Zealand singles titles in 1966, 1970 and 1971 and the pairs titles in 1969 and 1980. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1979 and in 1990 became the first woman bowler inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.