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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1941-04-26) 26 April 1941 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sophia Gardens BC, Cardiff Cwmbran IBC, Cardiff IBC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gillian "Gill" Dawn Miles (born 26 April 1941) is a former international lawn and indoor bowler from Wales who competed at the Commonwealth Games..[1]
Biography
Born in 1941, Miles represented the Welsh team at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia,[2] where she competed in the triples event, with Janet Ackland and Margaret Pomeroy.[3]
In 1983, bowling for the Cwmbran Indoor Bowls Club she finished runner-up to Rita Jones in the Welsh national indoor singles.[4]
Miles won a bronze medal in the fours with Ann Sutherland, Pam John and Nina Shipperlee at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.[5][6]
Miles was champion of Wales on nine occasions at the Welsh National Bowls Championships in the pairs in 1991 and 2006, the triples in 1987, 2008 and 2019, the fours in 1985, 1996, 2001 and 2008.[7][8]
Miles continued to bowl for the Cardiff Bowling Club in age group events.[9] Gill is also a former Welsh captain and her mother Mavis Bellamy was also capped by Wales.[10]
References
- ^ "Athletes Profile:Lawn Bowls". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ "Wales Brisbane 1982". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 82. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "Young England hopes for Games". South Wales Echo. 19 November 1983. p. 4. Retrieved 4 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "profile". Bowls Tawa. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 47–252. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "WBA Handbook" (PDF). Welsh Bowls.
- ^ "CLUB NEWS". Cardiff Bowling Club. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ "Super bowl". Wales Online. 30 August 2006.
