Sharon Sims

Sharon Sims
MNZM
Personal information
Born (1952-05-24) 24 May 1952
Te Kopuru, New Zealand

Sharon Elmar Sims MNZM (born 24 May 1952) is a New Zealand lawn bowls player. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Jo Edwards in the women's pairs event. At the World Bowls Championships in 2000 she was a triples and fours champion, and in 2004 a pairs champion.[1]

In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sims was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to lawn bowls.[2] In 2013, she was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[3]

References

  1. Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
  2. Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  3. "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
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