Wendy Line

Wendy Line
(née Clarke)

Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Sport
Club	Southampton BC
Medal record Representing  England World Outdoor Championships 1988 Auckland pairs Commonwealth Games 1986 Auckland singles British Isles Championships 1986 triples

Wendy Line (née Clarke) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.^[1]

Bowls career

Line only started bowling at the age of 40 but won a bronze medal in the pairs at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland.^[2]

Her greatest achievement came in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Auckland when she won the gold medal in the women's singles.^[3] She represented England in the singles event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland^[4][5] and four years later represented England in the fours event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.^[6][7][8]

Under her maiden name of Clarke she won the 1981 National fours^[9] and the 1982 national singles.^[10] In 1985, she won the national triples title, bowling for Southampton BC.^[11]

Personal life

In 1984, she is married to fellow international bowler Peter Line.

References

1. "Wendy Line Profile". Bowls tawa.
2. "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
3. Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
4. "1990 Athletes". Team England.
5. "England team in 1990". Commonwealth Games Federation.
6. "1994 Athletes". Team England.
7. "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation.
8. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
9. "Bowls". Daily Mirror. 14 August 1981. Retrieved 22 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
10. "Bowls". Sandwell Evening Mail. 13 August 1982. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
11. "No disgrace in final defeat". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 15 August 1985. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.