{{Short description|British lawn bowler}} {{Use British English|date=November 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Joyce Lindores | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | birth_name = Joyce Scott | nationality = British (Scottish) | birth_date = 2 May 1944<ref name="scotsman">{{cite news|title=Joyce Lindores, considered Scotland's leading women's bowler|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/joyce-lindores-considered-scotland-s-leading-women-s-bowler-1-4494187|accessdate=30 July 2017|work=The Scotsman|date=5 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> | birth_place = Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wylie|first1=Kathryn|title=Tributes paid to champion bowler Joyce Lindores|url=http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/tributes-paid-to-champion-bowler-joyce-lindores-1-4489804|accessdate=30 July 2017|work=The Southern Reporter|date=29 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|6|18 |1944|2|5|df=yes}} | death_place = Melbourne, Australia | club = Ettrick Forest BC | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{SCO}}}} {{MedalCompetition|World Outdoor Championships}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Ayr|Triples}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Ayr|Fours}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Ayr|Team}} {{MedalBronze| 1996 Leamington Spa|Singles}} {{MedalBronze| 1996 Leamington Spa|Team}} {{MedalGold| 2000 Moama|Pairs}} {{MedalSilver| 2000 Moama|Fours}} {{MedalBronze| 2000 Moama|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalGold| 1998 Kuala Lumpur|Pairs}} {{MedalSilver| 2006 Melbourne|Pairs}} {{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold|1995 Cumbernauld|Singles}} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1997 Llandrindod Wells|triples}} {{MedalGold|1999 Cape Town|pairs}} {{MedalSilver|2005 Bangor|pairs}} {{MedalSilver|2005 Bangor|fours}} }}
'''Joyce Scott Lindores''' (2 May 1944 – 18 June 2017) was a Scottish international indoor and lawn bowler.
== Bowls career == Lindores won the Women's singles at the 1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship defeating Margaret Johnston in the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF502128017&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title="Lindores wins." Times [London, England] 8 April 1995|work=The Times|url-access=registration }}</ref> Three years later she won the pairs gold medal with Margaret Letham at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/bowls/20638665|title=Margaret Letham leads Scots to fours gold at World Bowls|date=7 December 2012 |publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref> The pair then won the pairs title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Moama, Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/20000316/554/0050 |title=Scots duos' world crown |work=Aberdeen Evening Express |date=16 March 2000 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 November 2024 }}</ref>
In 2005 she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships in Bangor, previously she had won a triples bronze in 1997 and pairs gold in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results.html|title=2005 Atlantic Rim Games|publisher=World Bowls Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111132351/http://www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/results.html|access-date=23 May 2021|archive-date=2006-01-11}}</ref>
She also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1988 and 1997 and the pairs in 1993 bowling for Ettrick Forest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bowlsscotland.com/previous-winners|title=Previous Winners|publisher=Bowls Scotland|access-date=21 April 2021|archive-date=4 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404184426/https://www.bowlsscotland.com/previous-winners|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Lindores remained in Melbourne after the 2006 Commonwealth Games held there.<ref name="scotsman"/> She died on 18 June 2017 in Melbourne.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bowlsscotland.com/news/sad-news-of-scottish-internationalist-joyce-lindores/ |title=Sad news of Scottish Internationalist – Joyce Lindores |publisher=Bowls Scotland |accessdate=25 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mulgravecc.com.au/transfers/bowls/Breaking-News.pdf |title=Mulgrave Country Club: Breaking News |publisher=Mulgrave Country Club |date=22 June 2017 |last=Miller |first=Sue |accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindores Joyce}} Category:1944 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Scottish female bowls players Category:Bowls World Champions Category:Scottish emigrants to Australia Category:Sportspeople from Galashiels Category:Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland Category:Indoor Bowls World Champions Category:Bowls European Champions Category:Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:20th-century Scottish sportswomen Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls