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Margaret Sumner

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Margaret Sumner, born Margaret Terrington on 7 July 1941, was an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia. At the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide she won the gold medal in the fours and the silver medal in the triples, and two years later she took a bronze medal in the pairs at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. She won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, among them a double gold in the triples and fours at Warilla, Australia, in 1997. At club level she won the Terang Bowling Club Championship eighteen times. She married Allan Sumner in 1966 and died in Warrnambool on 16 October 2022, at the age of 81.

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1941 1
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an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia
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1. Margaret Sumner (Wikipedia)
  • Biography
    Sumner was born on 7 July 1941.
  • Biography, Asia Pacific medals
    Sumner won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including double gold medal in the 1997 triples and fours at Warilla, Australia.
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    an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia
  • Competed In: World Bowls Championships, Biography, 1996
    she won the gold medal in the fours and silver medal in the triples at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide
  • Competed In: Commonwealth Games, Biography, 1998
    she won a bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the pairs
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