{{Short description|English lawn bowler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Lynne Whitehead | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|3|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Norwich, England | death_date = | death_place = | club = Norfolk Bowling Club | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | lawn bowls }} {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }} {{MedalBronze | 2002 Manchester | pairs }} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold|2007 Ayr|triples}} {{MedalCompetition|British Isles Championships}} {{MedalGold|2007|triples}} {{MedalGold|2007|fours}} }}
'''Lynne Maria Whitehead''' (born 1973) is an English international lawn bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ath=2995|title=Athletes Profile:Lawn Bowls|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>
== Bowls career == She was born in 1973 and won the bronze medal in the pairs with Amy Gowshall at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/bowls.htm|title=COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS|publisher=GBR Athletics}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2425|title=Lynne Whitehead profile|publisher=Bowls Tawa|access-date=2017-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202020608/http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2425|archive-date=2017-02-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2007 she won the triples gold 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 }}</ref>
She bowls for the Norfolk Bowling Club and has won four English National titles (the 2006 triples and 2006 fours and the junior singles in 1994<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004924/19940801/027/0027 |title=Bowls |work=Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) |date=1 August 1994 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=30 August 2023}}</ref> & 1998<ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500212234/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=35ee1e08 |title=For the Record |date=10 Aug 1998 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=27 Aug 2023 |page=34 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref>).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/newsid_2110000/2110230.stm|title=Lynne aiming for bowls success|date=17 July 2002|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref> She subsequently won the 2007 triples and fours at the British Isles Bowls Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://britishislesbowls.com/history-of-the-bibc/previous-winners/|title=Previous Winners|date=30 July 2013|publisher=British Isles Bowls Council}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitehead, Lynne}} Category:Living people Category:1973 births Category:English female bowls players Category:Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Category:Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:21st-century English sportswomen Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls