{{Short description|Jersey bowls player}} {{Use British English|date=August 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Lindsey Greechan | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (Channel Islander) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|3|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Jersey | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Lawn bowls | club = St Brelade BC | highestranking = '''31''' (December 2024)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldbowlsseries.com/female-rankings/ |title=Female rankings |publisher=World Bowls Series |access-date=31 December 2024 }}</ref> | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry| {{JEY}}}} {{MedalSport| }} {{MedalCompetition|World Singles Champion of Champions}} {{MedalBronze | 2008 Aberdeen | Women's Singles}} {{MedalCompetition|British Isles Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold | 2008 Belfast | Women's Singles}} {{MedalGold | 2013 Leamington Spa| Women's fours}} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold| 2007 Ayr | Women's Fours}} {{MedalCompetition|IIBC Championships}} {{MedalSilver| 2008 | Mixed Pairs}} {{MedalSilver| 2014 | Women's Singles}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalSilver | 2024 Ayr | singles }} {{MedalBronze | 2024 Ayr | pairs }} }}
'''Lindsey Greechan''' is an international lawn bowls player from Jersey. She became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biwbc.com/community/british-isles-women-s-bowls-council-15075/home|title=Previous Winners|publisher=British Isles Bowls Council|access-date=15 May 2020|archive-date=20 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220210552/http://www.biwbc.com/community/british-isles-women-s-bowls-council-15075/home|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Bowls career== ===Commonwealth Games=== Lindsey Greechan represented Jersey in lawn bowls at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/lawn_bowls/1023599/l_greechan.html | title=Lindsey Greechan | publisher=Glasgow 2014 | accessdate=23 November 2015}}</ref> With Katie Nixon, the pair lost to Northern Ireland in the pairs bronze medal match 15–14. Had they won the match, they would have been Jersey's first medalists at the Commonwealth Games for 24 years.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/sport/2014/08/01/medal-agony-for-jersey-pair/ | title=Medal agony for Jersey pair | newspaper=Jersey Evening Post | date=1 August 2014 | accessdate=23 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/lawn_bowls/1023599/l_greechan.html|title=Athletes Biography| publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>
===Other events=== She became the first bowls player from Jersey to win an IIBC Championships at any level in 2002, when she won the Junior Ladies title.{{cn|date=September 2022}} She helped Jersey defeat England in a test series for the first time in 2004.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2004/10/11/bowlsengland-edged-out-by-jersey/ | title=Bowls:England edged out - by Jersey | newspaper=Jersey Evening Post | date=11 October 2004 | accessdate=4 December 2015}}</ref>
At the Atlantic Bowls Championships in 2007, Lindsey won gold with Jersey in the women's fours event.<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=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref name="Bowls Reds">{{cite news | url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2007/07/23/bowlsreds-atlantic-storm/ | title=Bowls: Reds' Atlantic storm | newspaper=Jersey Evening Post | date=23 July 2007 | accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Bowls Bid">{{cite news | url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2008/01/05/jersey-teams-world-bowls-bid-in-new-zealand/ | title=Jersey team's World Bowls bid in New Zealand | newspaper=Jersey Evening Post | date=5 January 2008 | accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref> In 2008, she came away with a bronze medal at the women's World Singles Champion of Champions event.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/3750 | title=Lindsey Greechan | publisher=Bowls Titles of the World | accessdate=23 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12366887.Malloy_narrowly_beaten_to_gold/ | title=Malloy narrowly beaten to gold | newspaper=Herald Scotland | date=8 September 2008 | accessdate=23 November 2015}}</ref>
Lindsey has won Jersey's women's outdoor Bowler of the Year three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bowlsjersey.org.je/ladies/Bowler%20of%20the%20Year%20years.htm | title=Ladies Bowler of the Year Winner | publisher=BJA | accessdate=24 November 2015}}</ref> Her mother, Gina Le Long, father, Peter Le Long, and brother, Kevin Le Long, have all played or play bowls competitively as well at national and international level for Jersey.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2003/06/19/eyebrows-raised-in-ballymena-over-absence-of-world-champion-from-jerseys-bowls-team/ | title=Eyebrows raised in Ballymena over absence of world champion from Jersey's bowls team | newspaper=Jersey Evening Post | date=19 June 2003 | accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2003/08/07/shaw-takes-the-plaudits/ | title=Shaw takes the plaudits | newspaper=Jersey Evening Post | date=7 August 2008 | accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2004/06/29/bowlsno-final-joy-for-qumard/ | title=Bowls:No final joy for Quémard | newspaper=Jersey Evening Post | date=29 June 2004 | accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref>
Greechan won a silver medal in the women's singles and a bronze medal in the pairs with daughter Chloe Greechan, at the 2024 European Bowls Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://guernseypress.com/sport/bowls/2024/09/11/a-podium-place-for-beere/ |title=A podium place for Beere |website=Guernsey Press |access-date=12 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/sport/medal-haul-bowls-jersey-european-champs |title=Medal haul for Bowls Jersey in European Champs |website=Bailwick Express |access-date=12 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jerseyeveningpost.com/sport/more/bowls/2024/09/12/davis-and-greechan-star-in-top-tournament/|title=Davis and Greechan star in top tournament|publisher=Jersey Evening Post|accessdate=13 September 2024}}</ref>
=== Family === {{main|The Greechans}} Greechan is part of a successful bowls family that includes her husband Thomas and daughter Chloe.
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