Lorna Lucas

Lorna Lucas was an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia whose medals came at the World Outdoor Bowls Championship. At the 1973 championship in Wellington she won the pairs gold medal with Dot Jenkinson and the fours bronze medal with Joan Vaughan, Olive Rowe and Jenkinson. Four years later, at the 1977 championship in Worthing, she won two gold medals and one silver medal: the golds came in the fours, with Connie Hicks, Jenkinson and Merle Richardson, and in the team event for the Taylor Trophy, while the silver was in the pairs with Jenkinson. At club level she won 23 Avenue Bowls Club titles, which marks a long career of success at home as well as abroad.