{{Short description|English bowler (born 1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Shirley Page | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|12|11|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | club = Baldock Town BC (outdoor) / Riverain BC (Indoor) | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalSport|}} {{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }} {{MedalGold | 2004 Leamington Spa | Women's team }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | fours}} {{MedalGold | 2002 Manchester | fours}} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalSilver|1993 Florida|triples}} {{MedalBronze|1993 Florida|fours}} {{MedalCompetition|British Isles Championships}} {{MedalGold|2001|fours}} }}
'''Shirley Page''' is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2430|title=Shirley Page profile|publisher=Bowls Tawa}}</ref>
== Bowls career == In 1993, she won the triples silver medal and fours bronze 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 }}</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 }}</ref>
In 1998 she represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and won a bronze medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weareengland.org/home/team-england/the-commonwealth-games/kuala-lumpur-1998/kuala-lumpur-1998-bronze-medallists#UPCU6OxToYtJHyXU.97|title=KUALA LUMPUR 1998: Bronze Medallists|publisher=Commonwealth Games England}}</ref>
Four years later she was part of the gold medal winning team in the fours at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester along with Ellen Alexander, Gill Mitchell and Carol Duckworth.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/photo_galleries/newsid_2160000/2160873.stm|title=Day six in Manchester|date=30 July 2002 |publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ath=2265|title=Athletes Profile:Lawn Bowls|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>
Page is also a four times national champion representing Hertfordshire, winning the triples in 1990,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500314455/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=86341636 |title='Burnham never look back after second end' |date=9 Aug 1990 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=26 Aug 2023 |page=33 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> fours in 2000,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0501394974/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=ac494d76 |title=For the Record |date=17 August 2000 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=27 Aug 2023 |page=39 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> the singles in 2003<ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0501625315/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=8e5d5d8b |title=The results service |date=18 Aug 2003 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=18 Aug 2023 |page=30 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and the two wood singles in 2004.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Page, Shirley}} Category:Living people Category:1940 births Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Category:English female bowls players Category:Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:20th-century English sportswomen Category:21st-century English sportswomen Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls