Sandra Bailie

Sandra Hazel Bailie, born on 30 November 1960, is a Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler. Outdoors she won the fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships in 2009 and the triples gold medal there in 2015. At the Irish National Bowls Championships she won the pairs in 2016, the triples in 2012 and 2016, and the fours in 2008, 2011 and 2014, bowling for the Knock Bowls Club, and in 2022 she won her seventh national title while bowling for NI Civil Service, taking the pairs with Alison Morris. In 2016 she was selected for the Northern Ireland team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Indoors she reached the final of the mixed pairs at the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, losing to Paul Foster and Alison Merrien. She was voted Belfast Sports Personality of the Year in 2017 and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to bowls.