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Birth name | Catherine Ivy Anton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1965-05-05) 5 May 1965 (age 59) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | Parkway BC Peterborough & District BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Catherine Ivy Popple née Anton (born 5 May 1965) is a former English international lawn bowler. Popple was an England international for 26 years, representing her country from 1987 to 2012.
Bowls career
Anton represented England in the fours event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
In 1998 she represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and won a bronze medal in the fours event with Norma Shaw, Mandy Jacklin and Shirley Page.
In 1999 she won the fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.
Anton is also an eleven times national champion representing Huntingdonshire, one singles, one pairs, one triples, four fours and four junior.
In 2024, Popple was appointed as a national selector for Bowls England.
Personal life
She married fellow bowler Stuart Popple.
References
- "Athlete profile". 2006 Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "Catherine Anton profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "Catherine Popple appointed as Bowls England selector". Bowls England. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- "Hopes Alive". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. 26 January 1987. Retrieved 23 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "1994 Athletes". Team England.
- "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "THOSE WERE THE DAYS... Local sporting highlights from this week in years gone by". Peterborough News.
- "KUALA LUMPUR 1998: Bronze Medallists". Commonwealth Games England. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- "'Johnston maintains dominance' (1999)". The Times. 29 March 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- "'For the Record' (1999)". The Times. 25 March 1999. p. 53. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- "Past Records". Bowls England.
- "Bowls: Leaders beat Brett, but can he topple Popple?". Peterborough News.
- Living people
- 1965 births
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- English female bowls players
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls European Champions
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportswomen