Siti Zalina Ahmad
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Siti Zalina Ahmad (born 2 June 1979) is a Malaysian international lawn bowler.[1]
Siti Zalina Ahmad is from Perak, in Malaysia and is the only woman to have won two Commonwealth Games singles Gold medals.
After watching a game of hockey in 1995 she saw a lawn bowls match and decided to take up the sport.[2]
The first title came in 2002 when she won the Commonwealth Games Singles Gold medal in Manchester[3] [4]and four years later she successfully defended her title winning the Commonwealth Games Singles Gold medal in Melbourne.
In the 2010 Commonwealth Games she won her qualifying group with a perfect 10-0 win record and 20-0 set record before losing to Natalie Melmore in the semi finals bringing her eight-year reign as champion to an end.[5] She was also the flag bearer for the Malaysian team during the 2010 games.
References
- ↑ "Siti Zalina Ahmad biography". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014 - Siti Zalina Ahmad Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "Siti Zalina crowned singles queen". BBC Sport.
- ↑ "David Rhys Jones. "Donnelly denies Henry his place in history." Times [London, England] 5 Aug. 2002". The Times Digital Archive.
- ↑ "Results by Sport". 2010 Commonwealth Games.