Merle Richardson

Merle Erica Richardson, born in 1930 in New South Wales, is a former international lawn bowls competitor for Australia. She won the fours and team event gold medals at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing, England, the fours gold with Dot Jenkinson, Connie Hicks and Lorna Lucas, and eight years later won three golds at the 1985 championship in Melbourne, in the singles, in the pairs with Fay Craig and in the team event, the Taylor Trophy. She also won two medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, including the 1985 singles gold at Tweed Heads. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to bowls in 1987 and inducted into the Bowls Australia Hall of Fame in 2011.