Dot Jenkinson

Dot Jenkinson was an international lawn bowls competitor for Australia.[1]

Dot Jenkinson

Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Sport
Club	Red Cliffs Bowls Club
Medal record Representing  Australia World Outdoor Championships 1973 Wellington pairs 1973 Wellington fours 1977 Worthing fours 1977 Worthing team 1977 Worthing pairs

Bowls career

World Championships

Jenkinson won the pairs gold medal with Lorna Lucas and the fours bronze medal with Joan Vaughan, Olive Rowe and Lorna Lucas, at the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington.[2]

Four years later she won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing. The two gold's were in the fours with Connie Hicks, Lorna Lucas and Merle Richardson and the team event (Taylor Trophy). The silver was in the pairs with Lucas.[3] [4]

National

She won six Australian National Bowls Championships in the fours and secured 22 Red Cliffs Bowls Club Championship wins in the singles.[5]

References

1. Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
2. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
3. "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
4. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
5. "Ladies to honour local bowls legend". Sunraysia Daily.