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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Belfast BC Belmont BC Knock BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Winifred "Freda" Elliott is a former international lawn bowler from Northern Ireland who competed at the Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal.[1]
Biography
Elliott represented the Northern Irish team[2] at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,[3] where she competed in the pairs event, with Margaret Johnston, winning the gold medal.[4][5]
She has won six Irish National Bowls Championships titles in the pairs (1993), the triples (1982, 1998) and the fours (1982, 1988 and 1996).[6][7][8]
References
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "The Team". Belfast News-Letter. 17 June 1986. p. 27. Retrieved 6 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Northern Ireland Edinburgh 1986". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "O'Neill relishing british mission". News Letter.
- ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 46–47. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "Previous Winners". Irish Bowling Association. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
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