Joyce Lindores

Joyce Scott Lindores (2 May 1944 – 18 June 2017) was a Scottish international indoor and lawn bowler.

Joyce Lindores

Personal information
Birth name	Joyce Scott
Nationality	British (Scottish)
Born	2 May 1944[1] Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland[2]
Died	18 June 2017(2017-06-18) (aged 73) Melbourne, Australia
Sport
Club	Ettrick Forest
Medal record Representing  Scotland World Outdoor Championships 2000 Moama Pairs Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur Pairs World Indoor Bowls Championships 1995 Cumbernauld Singles Atlantic Bowls Championships 1997 Llandrindod Wells triples 1999 Cape Town pairs 2005 Bangor pairs 2005 Bangor fours

Bowls career

Lindores won the Women's singles at the 1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship defeating Margaret Johnston in the final.^[3] Three years later she won the pairs gold medal with Margaret Letham at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.^[4] The pair then won the pairs title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Moama, Australia.^[5]

In 2005 she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships in Bangor, previously she had won a triples bronze in 1997 and pairs gold in 1999.^[6]

She also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1988 and 1997 and the pairs in 1993 bowling for Ettrick Forest.^[7]

Lindores remained in Melbourne after the 2006 Commonwealth Games held there.^[1] She died on 18 June 2017 in Melbourne.^[8][9]