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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Q4 1922 Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 June 2019 (aged 96) Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Oxford City and County BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emily Irene Molyneux (née Drew) (1922-2019) was an international lawn bowls competitor for England.
Bowls career
In 1981 Molyneux won double gold in the fours with Eileen Fletcher, Mavis Steele, Betty Stubbings and Gloria Thomas and the team event (Taylor Trophy) and a bronze medal in the pairs at the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto.
Molyneaux won seven National Championships titles; 1976 (pairs), 1979 (two wood singles), 1974, 1979, 1991, 1996 (triples) and fours (1986). She also won the British Isles Bowls Championships pairs title in 1977 with Margaret Lockwood.
Her husband Jim was President of the Oxford City and County Bowls Club in 1976.
References
- ^ "OBITUARY: Oxfordshire bowls star, Irene Molyneux, from Abingdon". Oxford Mail.
- Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- "Midland teams soon eliminated". Birmingham Daily Post. 16 August 1974. Retrieved 17 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Irene bowls in for double". Birmingham Daily Post. 16 August 1979. Retrieved 17 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "'For the Record'". The Times. 5 September 1996. p. 37. Retrieved 24 August 2023 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- "Club Honours". Oxford City & County BC.