Sandra Bailie

Sandra Bailie
MBE
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Northern Irish)
Born (1960-11-30) 30 November 1960 (age 64)
Northern Ireland
Sport
SportLawn & indoor bowls
ClubNI Civil Service
Medal record
Representing combined Ireland
Atlantic Bowls Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Johannesburg fours
Gold medal – first place 2015 Paphos triples
Irish National Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 fours
Gold medal – first place 2011 fours
Gold medal – first place 2012 triples
Gold medal – first place 2014 fours
Gold medal – first place 2016 pairs
Gold medal – first place 2016 triples
Gold medal – first place 2022 pairs

Sandra Hazel Bailie MBE (born 1960) is a Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]

Bowls career

Outdoor career

In 2009, she won the fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships[2][3] and in 2015 she won the triples gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[4]

She won the 2016 (pairs), 2012 & 2016 (triples) and 2008, 2011 & 2014 fours titles at the Irish National Bowls Championships bowling for the Knock Bowls Club.[5][6]

In 2016, she was selected as part of the Northern Ireland team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland.[7]

In 2022, Bailie won her seventh national title while bowling for NI Civil Service. She won the pairs with Alison Morris.[8]

Indoor career

Bailie reached the final of the mixed pairs during the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing to Paul Foster and Alison Merrien.[9]

Honours and awards

Bailie was voted Belfast Sports Personality of the Year in 2017[10]

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to bowls.[11]

References

  1. ^ "2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". Irish Women's Bowling Association.
  2. ^ "2009 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Bowls". The Times. 18 May 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 21 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  4. ^ "2015 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Irish Women's Bowling Association National Championships". Irish Women's Bowling Association.
  6. ^ "Lawn Bowls" (PDF). Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Games 2018: Northern Ireland name 88-strong squad". BBC Sport.
  8. ^ "2022 IWBA National Championships". Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  9. ^ "World mixed pairs title for Ali". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Sandra Bailie – Belfast Sports personality of the year". CI Knock Bowling Club. 22 March 2016.
  11. ^ "No. 63918". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N16.