Margaret Letham
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| Nationality | Scottish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 June 1956 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burbank Hamilton BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Margaret Elizabeth Letham (born 21 June 1956) is a female lawn and indoor bowler.
Bowls career
Margaret Letham is from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in Scotland and started bowling at the age of 15 [1] and has won medals at four World Outdoor Championships.[2]
She won gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had competed in five consecutive Commonwealth Games for Scotland from 1998 until 2014.[3]
In 2007 she won the pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[4][5]In 2009 she won the pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Championships[6][7] and in 2011 she won the pairs gold medal for the second time at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[8]
Letham has won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title on two occasions in 1999 and 2019.[9]
References
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Margaret Letham Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Margaret Letham leads Scots to fours gold at World Bowls". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "2007 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 July 2007. p. 61. Retrieved 20 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "Second stage results". Bowls Scotland.
- Scottish female bowls players
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Bowls World Champions
- Sportspeople from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls