Jo Edwards
New Zealand lawn bowler
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| Born | (1970-02-05) 5 February 1970 (age 54) Clatterbridge, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joanna Edwards MNZM (born 5 February 1970) is a New Zealand international lawn bowls competitor. She has won two world titles and three Commonwealth Games gold medals.
Bowls career
Outdoors
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Sharon Sims in the women's pairs event.[1] She has twice won the gold medal at the World Outdoor Bowls Championships in the pairs events: in 2004 with Sharon Sims; and in 2008 with Val Smith.
In 2014 she won a second Commonwealth Games gold medal after winning the women's singles in Glasgow.
In 2016, she won a bronze medal at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch in the singles and a silver medal with Angela Boyd in the pairs.[2]
She was selected as part of the New Zealand team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland,[3] where she claimed a gold medal in the Singles.
In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.[4]
In addition to World Bowls and Commonwealth Games success she has won five gold medals and (nine medals in total) at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships[5] and excelled at the 2015 APL (Australian Premier League), she was the only woman competing in the eight-team tournament featuring 24 of the world's top players and played alongside her countrymen Ali Forsyth and Shannon McIlroy to win the title at Club Pine Rivers.[6]
Indoors
Edwards has won six World Cup Singles titles (a women's record) with the latest success being in 2019. Previous wins were in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2017.[7]
Honours
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Edwards was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to lawn bowls.[8]
References
- ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^ "2016 World Bowls Championship Finals". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ "Bowls: New Zealand team named for Commonwealth Games". New Zealand Herald.
- ^ "Blackjacks Selected for World Championships 2020". Bowls New Zealand. 10 February 2020.
- ^ "Results Portal". Bowls Australia.
- ^ Landells, Steve (17 November 2015). "Lawn bowls: Jo Edwards stars in Blackjacks triumph". New Zealand Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ "World Cup indoor singles – Day 9". Bowls International.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
External links
- Jo Edwards at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Jo Edwards at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Jo Edwards at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Joanna Edwards at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Joanna Edwards at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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2002 New Zealand Commonwealth Games team
- Valerie Adams
- Michael Aish
- Jane Arnott
- Craig Barrett
- Chantal Brunner
- Phil Costley
- Beatrice Faumuina
- Gabrielle Gorst
- Melina Hamilton
- John Henwood
- Philip Jensen
- Craig Kirkwood
- Dallas Roberts
- Tony Sargisson
- Tasha Williams
- Jonathan Wyatt
- Geoff Bellingham
- Chris Blair
- John Gordon
- Nicole Gordon
- Nick Hall
- Tammy Jenkins
- Rhona Robertson
- Sara Petersen
- Daniel Shirley
- Kahukura Bentson
- Shane Cameron
- Danny Codling
- Daniel Headifen
- Heath Blackgrove
- Fiona Carswell
- Hayden Godfrey
- Justin Grace
- Vanessa Guyton
- Greg Henderson
- Melissa Holt
- Kashi Leuchs
- Gordon McCauley
- Glen Mitchell
- Karl Moore
- Sadie Parker-Wynyard
- Anthony Peden
- Susy Pryde
- Matthew Randall
- Rosalind Reekie-May
- Kirsty Robb
- Hayden Roulston
- Ryan Russell
- Nathan Seddon
- Matt Sinton
- Sarah Ulmer
- Lee Vertongen
- Ryan Archibald
- Sandy Bennett
- Michael Bevin
- Phil Burrows
- Helen Clarke
- Dean Couzins
- Amanda Christie
- Tara Drysdale
- Paula Enoka
- Dion Gosling
- Colleen Gubb-Suddaby
- Bevan Hari
- Blair Hopping
- Anne-Marie Irving
- David Kosoof
- Wayne McIndoe
- Caryn Paewai
- Umesh Parag
- Mitesh Patel
- Suzie Pearce
- Jaimee Provan
- Niniwa Roberts
- Rachel Robertson
- Moira Senior
- Hayden Shaw
- Darren Smith
- Peter Stafford
- Rachel Sutherland
- Simon Towns
- Michelle Turner
- Diana Weavers
- Paul Woolford
- Kate Brocklehurst
- Belinda Castles
- Daniel Good
- Garrick Rowe
- Nicola Wells
- Mellissa Jones
- Gareth Knight
- Andrew Ross
- Tim Slyfield
- Elinore Stallworthy
- Rochelle Stormont
- Peter Belliss
- Rowan Brassey
- Marlene Castle
- Andrew Curtain
- John Davies
- Jo Edwards
- Paul Girdler
- Peter Horne
- Wendy Jensen
- Sean Johnson
- Patsy Jorgensen
- Mike Kernaghan
- Jan Khan
- Anne Lomas
- Russell Meyer
- Marilyn Savage
- Sharon Sims
- Barry Wynks
- Teresa Borrell
- Mike Collings
- Diane Collings
- Tania Corrigan
- Alan Earle
- Juliet Etherington
- David Grummitt
- Bill Jones
- Geoffrey Jukes
- Jocelyn Lees
- Sean McCabe
- Kathryn Mead
- Stephen Petterson
- Dayle Slinn
- Michael Smith
- Nadine Stanton
- Jason Wakeling
- Paul Wilson
- Scott Wilson
- Brian Wistrand
- Greg Yelavich
- Daniel Sharplin
- Shelley Kitchen
- Carol Owens
- Lara Petera
- Leilani Rorani
- Glen Wilson
- Moss Burmester
- Cameron Gibson
- Charlotte Glynan
- Melissa Ingram
- Toni Jeffs
- Dean Kent
- Hannah McLean
- Vivienne Rignall
- Nicholas Sheeran
- Anna Thomas
- Elizabeth Van Welie
- Jonathan Winter
- Andrew Hubbard
- Peter Jackson
- Shane Laugeson
- Aaron Li
- Chunli Li
- Karen Li
- Tracey McLauchlan
- Laura-Lee Smith
- Hamish Carter
- Heather Evans
- Kris Gemmell
- Craig Watson
- Evelyn Williamson
- Nigel Avery
- Olivia Baker
- Grant Cavit
- Terry Hughes
- Keisha-Dean Soffe
- George Taamaru
- Ricardo Aryan
- Nicholas Daly
- Martin Liddle
