Frances Whyte
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 September 1930[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Priorscroft BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Janet "Frances" M. Whyte (born 22 September 1933) is a former international lawn and indoor bowler from Scotland who won world championship golds and competed at three Commonwealth Games.[2]
Biography
Whyte won a gold medal in the fours at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne. Seven years later she won two more golds in both the triples and the fours at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[3]
She also competed at the Commonwealth Games in bowls events at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4]
Whyte represented the Scottish team[1] at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[5][6] where she competed in the pairs event, with Sarah Gourlay.[7]
In 1993 she won the fours gold medal at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships.[8][9]
A third Commonwealth Games appearance ensued in the bowl events at the 1994 Commonwealth Games..[3]
One year later she repeated the Atlantic Bowls success winning the fours gold again in Durban.[10][11]
References
- ^ a b "The glory hunters". Aberdeen Evening Express. 24 January 1990. p. 16. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ a b "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Results from the Commonwealth Games Yesterday". Birmingham Evening Mail. No. 28 July 1986. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Pan Books Ltd. pp. 39–46. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Scotland Auckland 1990". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
- ^ "Bruces's golden shot". Aberdeen Evening Express. 2 February 1990. p. 1. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "'Shaw strikes gold'". The Times. 25 October 1993. p. 28. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'Guernsey finally falter". The Times. 1 November 1993. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Jones, D.R. (1995) 'S Africa's bowlers reclaim top spot'". The Times. 24 April 1995. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'For the Record' (1995)". The Times. 1 May 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.