Mavis Steele
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 September 1928 Kenton, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1998 Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sunbury Sports Club BC Egham IBC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mavis Mary Steele MBE (1928-1998) was an England international lawn bowler.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Mavis was born in Kenton, Middlesex on 9 September 1928. She was a data preparation manager by trade.[2]
Bowls career
[edit]In 1973 she secured a double silver at the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington, New Zealand in the singles and the pairs with Phyllis Derrick. Eight years later she her finest moment came when claiming double gold in the fours with Eileen Fletcher, Betty Stubbings, Gloria Thomas and Irene Molyneux and the team event (Taylor Trophy), during the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto.[3]
Mavis was twice selected to represent England at the Commonwealth Games; the first in 1982 in Brisbane where she won a bronze medal in the triples with Norma Shaw and Betty Stubbings and the second in 1990.[4][5]
She won eight outdoor National titles; the singles in 1961, 1962 and 1969, the pairs in 1964 & 1971, the triples in 1968[6] and the fours in 1963[7] & 1969.[8] She played for Sunbury Sports Club outdoors and the Egham club indoors.[2]
Awards
[edit]Steele was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1983 New Year Honours for services to women's bowls.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ a b Ken Hawkes; Gerard Lindley (1974). Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ "Bowling title for Ethel". Nottingham Guardian. 30 August 1968. Retrieved 26 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Title for Droitwich". Birmingham Daily Post. 31 August 1963. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Ilminster beaten". Western Daily Press. 29 August 1969. Retrieved 18 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ UK & Commonwealth list: "No. 49212". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1982. p. 16.
- English female bowls players
- 1928 births
- 1998 deaths
- People from Kenton, London
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Harrow
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Brent
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Bowls World Champions
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportswomen