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Millie KhanMBE

Personal information
Born	(1938-07-29)29 July 1938
Died	24 November 2003(2003-11-24) (aged 65)
Spouse	Ronald Amin Khan
Relative(s)	Jan Khan (daughter) Marina Khan (daughter)
Sport
Country	New Zealand
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Matamata Bowling Club
Achievements and titles
National finals	11 national titles
Medal record Women's lawn bowls Representing  New Zealand Commonwealth Games 1990 Auckland Singles 1998 Kuala Lumpur Singles Asia Pacific Bowls Championships 1985 Tweed Heads Fours 1989 Suva Singles 1995 Dunedin Triples 1995 Dunedin Fours 1985 Tweed Heads Triples 1989 Suva Pairs 1997 Warilla Singles 1997 Warilla Pairs

Millie Cecilia Khan MBE (29 July 1938 – 24 November 2003) was a lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.

Personal life

Khan is of Māori descent through her mother, while her father was a Yugoslav emigrant. She married her husband Ron Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, when she was 16. Two of her daughters (Jan Khan and Marina Khan) were also New Zealand representative lawn bowlers.

Bowls career

A competitor at four Commonwealth Games; she won a silver medal in the women's singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. She won a bronze medal in the same event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

She won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including four gold medals.

Khan won a total of eleven New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles; four in the singles (1989, 1990, 1992 and 2000); two in the pairs (1994 and 2000) and five in the fours (1989, 1990, 1997, 2001 and 2002) bowling for the Matamata Bowling Club.

Honours and awards

In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Khan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls.

In 2013, Khan was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.

References

1. HighBeam Research - Bowls NZ champion dies, aged 65
2. Longmore, Andrew (16 September 1998). "Spiritual guidance for Khan". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 May 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
3. "Renowned sportswoman dies". New Zealand Herald. 24 November 2003. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
4. Ratttue, Chris (8 January 2010). "My life in sport: Jan Khan". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
5. HighBeam Research - If anyone can Millie Khan
6. Millie Khan Bowls Tawa
7. "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
8. "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
9. "No. 52174". The London Gazette. 16 June 1990. p. 30.
10. "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.

• 1938 births
• 2003 deaths
• New Zealand female bowls players
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
• Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
• New Zealand Māori sportspeople
• New Zealand people of Yugoslav descent
• Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
• 20th-century New Zealand sportswomen
• 21st-century New Zealand women
• Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games