{{Short description|Lawn bowler}} {{Use British English|date=November 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Trish Steyn | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = South African | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|1|19|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | club = | highestranking = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's lawn bowls }} {{MedalCountry | {{RSA}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Outdoor Championships }} {{MedalGold | 2004 Leamington Spa | Women's triples }} {{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }} {{MedalGold | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | Women's fours }} {{MedalCompetition|Atlantic Bowls Championships}} {{MedalGold|1999 Cape Town|fours}} }}
'''Patricia 'Trish' Ann Steyn''' (born 1952) is a South African international lawn bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m2006.thecgf.com/Participants/Participants?ID=103198|title=Trish Steyn profile|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>
== Bowls career == Steyn won the gold medal in the women's fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, the team consisted of Loraine Victor, Hester Bekker and Lorna Trigwell.
The following year in 1999, she won the fours gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships with Ellen Cawker, Bekker and Lorna Trigwell.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500931282/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=8481946c|title='Johnston maintains dominance' (1999)|date=29 March 1999 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=25 May 2021|page=31 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500930383/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=d7e584c0|title='For the Record' (1999)|date=25 March 1999 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=25 May 2021|page=53 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Five years later she won another gold with Jill Hackland and Loraine Victor in the Women's triples at the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Leamington Spa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF502698909&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title="Wales fall short." Times [London, England] 11 Sept. 2004|work=The Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2004-10-26-gsb-staffer-bowls-them-over-in-england |title=GSB staffer bowls them over in England |publisher=University of Capetown |access-date=10 November 2024 }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Steyn, Trish}} Category:Living people Category:1952 births Category:South African female bowls players Category:Bowls World Champions Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Category:Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls