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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1916-12-05)5 December 1916 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1999 (aged 82–83) Nuneaton, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Nuneaton BC | ||||||||||||||
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Mabel Phoebe Darlington (5 December 1916 – 1999) was a Canadian-born international lawn bowls competitor for England.
Bowls career
In 1977 she won the silver medal in the fours at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing with Margaret Lockwood, Joan Hunt and Joan Sparkes.
After taking up bowls in 1951 she won the 1961 national 2 wood singles title at the England Women's National Championships when bowling for Warwickshire.
Also won the Leamington Open four times.
References
- Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- "National title for Nuneaton Woman". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 25 August 1961. Retrieved 19 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
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