Margaret Letham

Margaret Elizabeth Letham is a Scottish lawn and indoor bowler, born on 21 June 1956 and from Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, who started bowling at the age of 15. She has won medals at four World Outdoor Championships: pairs gold with Joyce Lindores in 2000 at Moama in Australia, a singles bronze four years later at Leamington Spa, and, eight years after that, a gold in the fours with Caroline Brown, Lynn Stein and Michelle Cooper plus a pairs bronze with Claire Johnston at Adelaide. She won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1998 at Kuala Lumpur and competed for Scotland at five consecutive Games from 1998 until 2014. At the Atlantic Bowls Championships she collected seven medals between 1999 and 2011, four of them pairs golds, and in 2008 she won the singles title at the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic. Nationally she has won the Scottish singles title in 1999 and 2019 and the women's singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2022.