Sandra Bailie
Northern Irish lawn bowler
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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1960-11-30) 30 November 1960 (age 63) Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn & indoor bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | NI Civil Service | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sandra Hazel Bailie MBE (born 1960) is a Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
Outdoor career
In 2009, she won the fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships[2][3] and in 2015 she won the triples gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[4]
She won the 2016 (pairs), 2012 & 2016 (triples) and 2008, 2011 & 2014 fours titles at the Irish National Bowls Championships bowling for the Knock Bowls Club.[5][6]
In 2016, she was selected as part of the Northern Ireland team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland.[7]
In 2022, Bailie won her seventh national title while bowling for NI Civil Service. She won the pairs with Alison Morris.[8]
Indoor career
Bailie reached the final of the mixed pairs during the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing to Paul Foster and Alison Merrien.[9]
Honours and awards
Bailie was voted Belfast Sports Personality of the Year in 2017[10]
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to bowls.[11]
References
- ^ "2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". Irish Women's Bowling Association.
- ^ "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "2015 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "Irish Women's Bowling Association National Championships". Irish Women's Bowling Association.
- ^ "Lawn Bowls" (PDF). Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games 2018: Northern Ireland name 88-strong squad". BBC Sport.
- ^ "2022 IWBA National Championships". Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ^ "World mixed pairs title for Ali". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ "Sandra Bailie – Belfast Sports personality of the year". CI Knock Bowling Club. 22 March 2016.
- ^ "No. 63918". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N16.
