Colleen Piketh

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Colleen Piketh
Personal information
NationalitySouth African
Born (1972-12-26) 26 December 1972 (age 50)[1]
Johannesburg, South Africa
Height5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight100 kg (220 lb)
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubBedfordview BC
George BC
Discovery BC

Colleen Piketh (née Webb; born 26 December 1972) is a South African international lawn bowler.[2]

Bowls career

In 2007 she won the singles gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[3][4] In 2011 she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[5]

Piketh competed in the women's pairs and the women's singles events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games[6] where she won a gold[7] and bronze medal respectively. She won a gold medal in the women's pairs at the World Bowls Atlantic Bowls Championships in Cyprus in 2015, together with Nici Neal. Piketh also competed in the singles format at the same tournament, losing to Guernsey's Lucy Beere 21-15 in the medal playoff game.[8]

Piketh was part of South Africa's team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia[9] where she won a bronze medal in the singles event and a silver medal in the pairs.[10]

She won the 2018 pairs at the South African National Bowls Championships bowling for the George Bowls Club with Elma Davis.[11]

In 2019 she won the pairs gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships[12] and in 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Gold Coast, Australia,[13] though this event was postponed until 2021.[14]

In 2021 she won a second women's pairs title at the South African National Bowls Championships, this time partnering Thabelo Muvhango for the Discovery Bowls Club.[15] In 2022, she competed in the women's singles and the women's pairs at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[16]

References

  1. ^ "World Bowls Players Profiles" (PDF). Bowls South Africa. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Piketh tops her section at world championships". Kempton Express. South Africa. 11 April 2014.
  3. ^ "2007 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 July 2007. p. 61. Retrieved 20 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  5. ^ "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  7. ^ Etheridge, Mark (1 August 2014). "Piketh and Botha bowl to Team SA's 12th Games gold". SASCOC website. South Africa. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  8. ^ "2015 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  9. ^ "Team South Africa for Commonwealth Games announced". The South African. Archived from the original on 10 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Pairs results". CG2018.
  11. ^ "Newsletters". South Africa Bowls. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  12. ^ "2019 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  13. ^ "NATIONAL SELECTIONS". Bowls South Africa.
  14. ^ "2020 World Bowls Championships to be postponed indefinitely". Bowls Australia. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  15. ^ "BSA Women's Nationals". Johannesburg Bowls Association. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  16. ^ "Official Games profile". 2022 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 4 August 2022.