{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Ellen Cawker | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = South African | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|2|28|df=y}} | birth_place = Perth, Scotland | death_date = | death_place = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's lawn bowls }} {{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }} {{MedalSilver | 2002 Manchester | pairs}} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold|1999 Cape Town|fours}} }}
'''Ellen Cawker''' is a former South African international lawn bowler and national team manager.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ath=903|title=Athletes Profile:Lawn Bowls|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=23 January 2017|archive-date=31 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831103252/http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ath=903|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Bowls career== Cawker was born in 1946 in Perth, Scotland but emigrated to Rhodesia in 1956.
In 1999 she won the fours gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships with Trish Steyn, Hester Bekker and Lorna Trigwell.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500931282/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=8481946c|title='Johnston maintains dominance' (1999)|date=29 March 1999|newspaper=The Times|access-date=25 May 2021|page=31|via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500930383/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=d7e584c0|title='For the Record' (1999)|date=25 March 1999|newspaper=The Times|access-date=25 May 2021|page=53|via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
Three years later in 2002, she won the silver medal in the women's pairs with Jill Hackland at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2423|title=Ellen Cawker profile|publisher=Bowls Tawa|access-date=2017-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202015904/http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2423|archive-date=2017-02-02|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/bowls.htm|title=COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS|publisher=GBR Athletics}}</ref>
At international level (as both player and manager), she has won multiple medals - including Commonwealth Games, World Bowls Championships, African States Championships, Atlantic Rim Championships.
She retired from international competition after the Commonwealth Games and then served as South Africa team manager until 2007 but still plays for the Widenham Retirement Village Bowls Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margatebowlingclub.com/hall-of-fame|title=Top Achievers|publisher=Margate Bowls Club|access-date=23 January 2017|archive-date=8 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208104050/https://www.margatebowlingclub.com/hall-of-fame|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In her domestic career at national level, she has won the National Singles, National Mixed Pairs, National Fours, Senior Inter-Districts, Senior Masters.
She won the 2010 fours at the National Championships bowling for the Margate Bowls Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bowlssa.co.za/index.php/updates/newsletters|title=Newsletters|publisher=South Africa Bowls|access-date=2019-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403215844/https://www.bowlssa.co.za/index.php/updates/newsletters|archive-date=2019-04-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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