Betty Forsyth

Betty Forsyth

Personal information
Full name	Elizabeth Leishman Forsyth
Nationality	British (Scottish)
Born	(1945-04-06)6 April 1945
Died	May 2021(2021-05-00) (aged 76)[1]
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Blantyre BC
Medal record Women's lawn bowls Representing  Scotland World Outdoor Championships 2000 Johannesburg Women's Fours Commonwealth Games 1994 Victoria Women's Fours Atlantic Bowls Championships 1995 Durban fours 2005 Bangor fours

Elizabeth Leishman Forsyth (6 April 1945 – May 2021) was a Scottish international female lawn and indoor bowler.^[2]

Bowls career

Forsyth represented Scotland in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and won a bronze medal,^[3] the 1998 Commonwealth Games, 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games.

She also won a fours silver medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa.^[4]

In 1995 she won the fours gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships^[5][6] and ten years later won the fours silver medal at the Championships.^[7]

References

1. "Obituary: Betty Forsyth, Who Led By Example". Bowls International. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
2. "Internationalist Forsyth bows out at first hurdle bowls". Herald Scotland.
3. "Sporting Digest: Bowls". The Independent.
4. "World Bowls Championships" (PDF). worldbowls.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
5. "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.
6. "'For the Record' (1995)". The Times. 1 May 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
7. "2005 Atlantic Rim Games". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 January 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2021.

External links

• Betty Forsyth at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)