Millie Khan

Millie Cecilia Khan MBE (29 July 1938 – 24 November 2003) was a lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.[1]

Millie Khan
MBE
Personal information
Born(1938-07-29)29 July 1938
Died24 November 2003(2003-11-24) (aged 65)
Spouse(s)Ronald Amin Khan
Sport
SportBowls
ClubMatamata
Achievements and titles
National finals11 national titles
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Women's lawn bowls
Commonwealth Games
1990 AucklandSingles
1998 Kuala LumpurSingles

Personal life

Khan is of Māori descent through her mother, while her father was a Yugoslav emigrant. She married her husband Ron Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, when she was 16.[2][3][4] Two of her daughters (Jan Khan and Marina Khan) were also New Zealand representative lawn bowlers.[5]

Bowls career

A competitor at four Commonwealth Games; she won a silver medal in the women's singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. She won a bronze medal in the same event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.[6]

Millie won a total of eleven New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles; four in the singles (1989, 1990, 1992 & 2000); two in the pairs (1994 & 2000) and five in the fours (1989, 1990, 1997, 2001 & 2002) bowling for the Matamata Bowls Club.[7]

Honours and awards

In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Khan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls.[8]

In 2013, Khan was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[9]

References
  1. HighBeam Research - Bowls NZ champion dies, aged 65
  2. Longmore, Andrew (16 September 1998). "Spiritual guidance for Khan". The Independent. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  3. "Renowned sportswoman dies". New Zealand Herald. 24 November 2003. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  4. Ratttue, Chris (8 January 2010). "My life in sport: Jan Khan". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  5. HighBeam Research - If anyone can Millie Khan
  6. Millie Khan Bowls Tawa
  7. "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
  8. "No. 52174". The London Gazette. 16 June 1990. p. 30.
  9. "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
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