Joyce Lindores

Joyce Scott Lindores (2 May 1944 to 18 June 2017) was a Scottish international indoor and lawn bowler who won titles at world and Commonwealth level. She took the women's singles at the 1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship, beating Margaret Johnston in the final, and three years later won the pairs gold medal with Margaret Letham at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. The same pair then won the pairs title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Moama, Australia. At the Atlantic Bowls Championships she took a triples bronze in 1997 and pairs gold in 1999, and in 2005, at Bangor, she added pairs and fours silver medals. At home she won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1988 and 1997 and the pairs in 1993, bowling for Ettrick Forest. After the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne she stayed in that city, where she died in June 2017.