Karen_Murphy_(lawn_bowls)
Karen Murphy (bowls)
Australian bowls player
Karen Anne Murphy AM (born 18 December 1974) is an Australian international lawn bowler and indoor bowler.[1]
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| Born | (1974-12-18) 18 December 1974 (age 49) Kiama, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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World championships
Murphy has won the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in the fours, 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in the triples and twice in the singles at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[2] She successfully defended her title in the singles at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch after defeating Lesley Doig in the final.[3] This achievement is generally agreed to have elevated her to being the best female bowler since Margaret Johnston.[4]
Commonwealth Games
She has won gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the pairs. In addition she has won three Commonwealth Games silver medals,[5] the most recent being in the Women's triples at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[6]
Asia Pacific Championships
She has won a remarkable 13 medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, of which no less than eight have been gold in colour.[7]
Indoors
In 2012, she also won the World Indoor Bowls Championship title, a fine achievement bearing in mind that she does not compete every year in the event held in England.
She has also been a guest commentator during the World Indoor Bowls Championships for the BBC. She was a Director for World Bowls from 2014-2018.
Murphy was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2021 Australia Day Honours, for "For significant service to lawn bowls as an elite player at the international level."[8]
- "profile". Bowls Tawa. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- "World Bowls 2016 - Profiles" (PDF). World Bowls. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2017.
- "2016 World Bowls Championship Finals". Burnside Bowling Club.
- "Back to back world bowls champion Karen Murphy hails Burnside as her 'happy hunting ground'". Stuff.co.nz. 4 December 2016.
- "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- "Karen Murphy biography". Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- "Australia Day 2021 Honours List" (PDF). Governor General of Australia. Retrieved 25 January 2021.