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Siti Zalina Ahmad

Siti Zalina Ahmad

Malaysian lawn bowler


Siti Zalina Ahmad (born 2 June 1979) is a Malaysian international lawn bowler.[1]

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Bowls career

Siti Zalina Ahmad is from Perak, in Malaysia and is one of only two women to have won two Commonwealth Games singles Gold medals. After watching a game of hockey in 1995 she saw a lawn bowls match and decided to take up the sport.[2]

Commonwealth Games

The first title came in 2002 when she won the Commonwealth Games Singles Gold medal in Manchester[3][4] and four years later she successfully defended her title winning the Commonwealth Games Singles Gold medal in Melbourne.

In the 2010 Commonwealth Games she won her qualifying group with a perfect 10-0 win record and 20-0 set record before losing to Natalie Melmore in the semi-finals bringing her eight-year reign as champion to an end.[5] She was also the flag bearer for the Malaysian team during the 2010 games.

She was selected as part of the Malaysian team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland[6] where she claimed a gold medal in the Pairs with Emma Firyana Saroji.[7]

In 2022, she competed in the women's singles and the women's pairs at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[8] In the singles she secured a bronze medal.[9]

World Championship

Zalina has also won one world championship medal, a bronze at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.[10]

International

Zalina has won eleven medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, including three gold medals and a double bronze at the 2019 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the Gold Coast, Queensland.[11][12] She has also won three titles at the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic, consisting of the 2014 and 2018 singles title and the 2008 pairs title with Nor Hashimah Ismail.[13][14]

In the Southeast Asian Games she has won three gold medals.[15][16][17]

National

She also won the 2008 singles title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling as an overseas invitational player.[18][19]

Personal life

Her occupation is a Police Officer and is nicknamed Lina.


References

  1. "Siti Zalina Ahmad biography". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  2. "Glasgow 2014 - Siti Zalina Ahmad Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  3. "Siti Zalina crowned singles queen". BBC Sport. 4 August 2002.
  4. "Results by Sport". 2010 Commonwealth Games.[permanent dead link]
  5. "Profile". GC 2018.
  6. "Official Games profile". 2022 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  7. "Ryan's express fightback wins Commonwealth Games lawn bowls gold for Australia". Inside the Games. August 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  8. "Results Portal". Bowls Australia.
  9. "HK Classic winners Women's singles". HKLBA. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  10. "HK Classic winners Women's pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  11. "2005 Southeast Asian Games Official Results". Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  12. "2007 Southeast Asian Games Official Results". Bowls Singapore. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  13. "History of the SEA Games". Olympic Council of Malaysia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.

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