Joan Ricketts is a former Welsh international lawn bowler. She represented Wales at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh as part of the women's fours team, alongside Linda Parker, Linda Evans and Rita Jones, which won the gold medal. At home she was twice champion of Wales at the Welsh National Bowls Championships, taking the triples title in 1983 and the pairs title in 1984, both while a member of the Bailey Park Bowls Club in Abergavenny. Her Commonwealth Games gold and her two Welsh national titles make her one of the successful Welsh women bowlers of the 1980s.
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Joan Ricketts is a former Welsh international lawn bowler.
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was part of the fours team, with Linda Parker, Linda Evans and Rita Jones that won the gold medal.
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Ricketts was twice champion of Wales at the Welsh National Bowls Championships, winning the triples in 1983 and the pairs in 1984
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Joan Ricketts is a former Welsh international lawn bowler.
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Ricketts represented the Welsh team at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland
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