{{Short description|Northern Irish lawn bowler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Jennifer Dowds | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = Northern Irish | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|7|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Ballymoney, Northern Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Lawn bowls | club = Ballymena BC | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry |25px Ireland}} {{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }} {{MedalBronze | 2008 Christchurch | fours }} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalBronze|2007 Ayr|singles}} {{MedalBronze|2009 Johannesburg|pairs}} }}
'''Jennifer Dowds''' (born 7 July 1959) is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cwgdelhi2010.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?pageid=8937&sportid=464&personid=711451|title=Jennifer Dowds biography|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>
== Bowls career == === International === Dowds won the bronze medal in the fours at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.burnsidebowlingclub.com/worldbowls2008/wb2008homeOLD.html|title=Medallists|publisher=Burnside Bowling Club}}</ref>
In 2007, she won the singles bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|title=2007 Atlantic Championships|publisher=World Bowls Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125035718/http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|access-date=17 May 2021|archive-date=2010-11-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503552743/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=8d4aa913 |title=Bowls |date=18 July 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=20 May 2021 |page=61 |via=The Times Digital Archive |url-access=subscription }}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> and two years later won the pairs bronze medal at the 2009 Atlantic Bowls Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|title=2009 Atlantic Championships|publisher=World Bowls Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314062629/http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results-old.php|access-date=21 May 2021|archive-date=2010-03-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503964873/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=284753c0 |title=Bowls |date=18 May 2009 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=21 May 2021 |page=61 |via=The Times Digital Archive |url-access=subscription }}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
=== National === Dowd won the 2005 singles title at the Irish National Bowls Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004162/20050903/130/0022 |title=Ladies Bowls |work=Ireland's Saturday Night |date=3 September 2005 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref>
Additionally, she won the 1995 and 1997 pairs titles and the 2012 fours title, at the Irish National Championships, bowling for the Ballymoney and Ballymena Bowls Clubs respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iwba.co.uk/Championships/IWBA-Championships.html|title=Irish Women's Bowling Association National Championships|publisher=Irish Women's Bowling Association}}</ref>
In 2016, Dowds won the finals in both the pairs and triples of the Provincial Towns Women's Bowling Association Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/sport/ballymena-ladies-impress-at-provincial-towns-womens-bowling-association-championships-2137731 |title=Ballymena ladies impress at Provincial Towns Women's Bowling Association championships |publisher=Northern Ireland World|date=15 August 2016 |access-date=30 March 2025}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dowds, Jennifer}} Category:Female lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Category:Living people Category:1959 births Category:20th-century sportswomen from Northern Ireland Category:21st-century sportswomen from Northern Ireland Category:Sportspeople from Ballymoney