Katherine Hawes
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 December 1969 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn / indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Oxford City & County BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Katherine Elizabeth Alice Hawes-Watts (born 1969) is an English lawn and indoor bowler international.[2]
Bowls career
[edit]International events
[edit]In 1997 she won the pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships with Mary Price.[3][4]
The following year she represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the pairs again with Mary Price, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[5][6]
In 1999 she won a fours silver at the Atlantic Championships in Cape Town[7][8] and the following year she won a triples silver medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa.[9]
National events
[edit]Hawes won national titles[10] in 1992 (National triples),[11] 1997 (1997 National Two Wood singles)[12] 2010 (2010 National Champion of Champions), 2014 (National fours) and 2015 (National pairs).
At the 2021 Bowls England National Finals, she just missed out on winning a sixth title after finishing runner-up to Stef Branfield in the two wood singles, losing 16–10.[13]
In 2024, Hawes-Watts won the national pairs again, bowling with her close friend Lorraine Kuhler[14] for the Oxford City & County BC at the 2024 Bowls England National Finals.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athlete profile". 2006 Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "BOWLS: Katherine Hawes helps England to magnificent seven". Oxford Mail. 12 March 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "'Johnston maintains dominance' (1999)". The Times. 29 March 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'For the Record' (1999)". The Times. 25 March 1999. p. 53. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "World Bowls Championships" (PDF). worldbowls.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
- ^ "Champ Tims simply the best". Birmingham Daily Post. 3 August 1992. Retrieved 14 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Bowls". Birmingham Daily Post. 9 August 1997. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Daily Round Up". Bowls England. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "Bowls star Kuhler on the lifelong friendships the game has given her". Oxford Mail. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "2024 National Championships women's pairs". Bowls England. Retrieved 31 August 2024.