Frances Whyte

Janet Frances Whyte, born in 1933, is a former Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler who won world championship gold medals and competed at three Commonwealth Games. She won the fours at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne and, seven years later, took both the triples and the fours at the 1992 championship in Worthing. At the Commonwealth Games she bowled for Scotland in the 1986 Games in Edinburgh, in the pairs at the 1990 Games in Auckland alongside Sarah Gourlay, and again at the 1994 Games. She also won the fours gold medal at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships in 1993 and repeated the success at the 1995 edition in Durban. The record shows a long career at the top of the women's game, built on team events in which Scotland was strong through the 1980s and 1990s.