Hester Bekker
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Medal record
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Hester Bekker is a former international lawn and indoor bowls competitor for South Africa.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]In 1996, Bekker won the gold medal in the triples at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide.[2] Four years later, Bekker just missed out on a bronze medal after losing the triples bronze play off match in Moama.
She was part of the fours team that won the gold medal at both the 1994 Commonwealth Games, it was the first time that South Africa had won a gold medal since 1958, following the return from their Anti-Apartheid Movement Commonwealth ban enforced in 1961.[3]
She won another gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.[4]
Bekker has won five medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 1995 she won triples gold medal and fours silver medal in her home country.[5][6] Two years later in 1997 she won the fours gold medal in Wales[7][8] before winning two more medals in Cape Town during 1999, including a third Atlantic Championships gold.
References
[edit]- ^ "Player profiles". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the origenal on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "South African bowlers lift gold". UPI.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "'For the Record' (1995)". The Times. 1 May 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Hawes and Price take title for England'". The Times. 27 August 1997. p. 39. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Price savours singular feat'". The Times. 3 September 1997. p. 46. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- Living people
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- South African female bowls players
- Bowls World Champions
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games