Joan Renouf

Joan Madeline Renouf was an international lawn bowler who represented Jersey. She was born on 1 March 1944 and died on 11 June 2025. She played for Jersey at two Commonwealth Games, bowling in the triples at the 2010 Games and in the triples and fours at the 2018 Games, which means she was still competing at the top level in her seventies. Her other results came in the regional championships of the sport: a gold medal in the fours at the Atlantic Bowls Championships in 2007, a gold medal at the European Bowls Championships in Portugal in 2011, and a bronze at the same European event two years later in 2013. Lawn bowls is a precision sport in which players roll biased bowls towards a small target ball, and Jersey is one of the island nations that send their own bowls teams to the Commonwealth Games. The English Wikipedia article records these results in a short bowls career section.