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Anna Pretorius
Personal information
Nationality South Africa
Medal record
Representing  South Africa
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria Women's fours

Anna Pretorius is a South African former international lawn bowler.

Pretorius won a gold medal in the Women's fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria with Colleen Grondein, Lorna Trigwell and Hester Bekker. It was the first time that South Africa had won a gold medal since 1958, following the return from their Anti-Apartheid Movement Commonwealth ban enforced in 1961.

Her daughter Linda Ralph won a New Zealand bowls national title after emigrating to that country.

References

  1. "Anna Pretorius profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. "Anna Pretorius". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  3. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  4. Mitch Phillips (26 August 1994). "South African bowlers lift gold". UPI.
  5. Alistair McMurran (21 June 2014). "Bowls: Like mother, like daughter". Otago Daily Times.


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