Willow Fong
Willow Fong is a former international lawn bowls competitor for Fiji and Australia.[1]
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Fong won the pairs silver medal with Maraia Lum On at the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto, Canada and four years later won the pairs silver medal again at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne, Australia. In 1998 she represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal in the pairs with Gordana Baric.[2]
Fong is originally from Tonga and started bowling in 1974.[3] She was the joint flag bearer for Fiji at the opening ceremony of the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4]
She now bowls in Australia for the Merrylands Bowling Club and is the wife of male bowls international Peter Fong.
References
- Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- World Bowls Committee (1985). 5th Women's World Bowls Souvenir Programme, page 26. World Bowls Committee.
- "2001 Willow Fong – Women's Lawn Bowls". Sports TG.
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