{{Short description|Scottish lawn and indoor bowler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Sarah Gourlay | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (Scottish) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|9|28|df=y}}<ref name=AEE>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19900124/373/0016 |title=The glory hunters |work=Aberdeen Evening Express |date=24 January 1990 |p=16 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Lawn and indoor bowls | club = Annbank BC | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{SCO}}}} {{MedalSport|}} {{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }} {{MedalGold | 1985 Melbourne | Women's fours }} {{MedalGold | 1992 Ayr | Women's team }} {{MedalBronze | 1996 Leamington Spa | Women's team }} {{MedalSilver | 2000 Moama | Women's fours }} {{MedalBronze | 2000 Moama | Women's team }} {{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold|1992 Guernsey|Women's singles}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalGold| 1994 Victoria| Women's pairs }} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold|1993 Florida|fours}} {{MedalBronze|1997 Llandrindod Wells|fours}} }}
'''Sarah Gourlay''' (born 28 September 1937) is a former international lawn and indoor bowler who won world championship gold medals and competed at the Commonwealth Games.
== Biography r== Gourlay played lead for the Scottish fours team when winning the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship gold medal in Brisbane.<ref>{{cite book|last=Newby|first=Donald|title=Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91|year=1990|publisher=Telegraph Publications|isbn=0-330-31664-8}}</ref> In 1992 she won the 1992 World Indoor Bowls Championship in Guernsey defeating Mary Price 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=IF500020266&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title="For the Record." Times [London, England] 6 Apr. 1992|work=The Times}}</ref>
In 1993 she won the fours gold medal at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503369651/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=53c04381|title='Shaw strikes gold'|date=25 October 1993|newspaper=The Times|access-date=25 May 2021|page=28|via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500635684/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=7805d2c8|title='Guernsey finally falter|date=1 November 1993|newspaper=The Times|access-date=25 May 2021|page=21|via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> and four years later won a fours bronze at the Championships.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500852516/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=af5dfd48|title=Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Hawes and Price take title for England'|date=27 August 1997|newspaper=The Times|access-date=25 May 2021|page=39|via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500853993/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=fc8942ed|title=Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Price savours singular feat'|date=3 September 1997|newspaper=The Times|access-date=25 May 2021|page=46|via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
She competed at the Commonwealth Games in 1986 in the fours event,<ref>{{cite news |title=Results from the Commonwealth Games Yesterday |url=https://newspapers.com/image/801274203/ |access-date=3 November 2023 |work=Birmingham Evening Mail |issue=28 July 1986}}</ref> in 1990 in the pairs event,<ref>{{cite news |title=Price is right |url=https://newspapers.com/image/809122732/ |access-date=3 November 2023 |work=Cambridge Evening News |date=29 January 1900}}</ref> in 1994 where she won a gold medal in the pairs event,<ref>{{cite web |title=Sarah Gourlay |url=https://www.teamscotland.scot/athlete/sarah-gourlay/ |website=Team Scotland |access-date=3 November 2023}}</ref> in 1998 in the fours event,<ref>{{cite news |title=The Golden Games Day 4 |url=https://newspapers.com/image/121807849/ |access-date=3 November 2023 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 September 1998}}</ref> and in 2002 in the fours event.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Deputy PM collapses |url=https://newspapers.com/image/753164302/ |access-date=3 November 2023 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=27 July 2002}}</ref>
She also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1991 & 1995 and the pairs title in 1968 bowling for Annbank.<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>
She is from the famous Scottish Gourlay bowling family and she married David Gourlay Sr. Her son David Gourlay Junior is also a renowned lawn and indoor bowler and coach.
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gourlay, Sarah}} Category:Scottish female bowls players Category:Living people Category:1937 births Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland Category:Bowls World Champions Category:Indoor Bowls World Champions Category:Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Category:Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:20th-century Scottish sportswomen Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls