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| Birth name | Natalie Melmore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1989-07-28) 28 July 1989 (age 35) Torquay, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Natalie Melmore (married name Natalie Chestney, born 28 July 1989 in Torquay) is a lawn bowler from Newton Abbot.
Bowls career
Natalie represented England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal in the women's singles event. In 2011 she won the singles and triples silver medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.
Natalie went on to win a further two silver medals in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the women's singles and women's pairs events with partner Jamie-Lea Winch.
In 2016 she secured a fourth and fifth National title win and in 2018 was part of the fours that won the National Championships. After her 2014 singles success she subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2015.
She was selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland. In 2019 she won the singles and pairs bronze medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.
In 2022, she competed in the women's triples and the Women's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She won the gold medal in the triples with Jamie-Lea Winch and Sian Honnor.
Personal life
In 2015, she married Jamie Chestney.
References
- THE ENGLAND TEAM | Sporting Life | Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010, Medal Table Archived 25 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- Commonwealth Games 2010: England & Wales win bowls gold
- "2011 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- "Past Records". Bowls England.
- "2018 Fours results" (PDF). Bowls England.
- "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
- "2018 Commonwealth Games team". Team England.
- "2019 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- "Official Games profile". 2022 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
- "England beat Malaysia to win women's triple lawn bowls gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- "OCommonwealth Games bowler Natalie Melmore to take 2015 off". BBC Sport.
External links
- Natalie Chestney at Team England
- Natalie Melmore at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Natalie Chestney at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Natalie Melmore at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Natalie Chestney at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Natalie Chestney at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Living people
- 1989 births
- Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- English female bowls players
- Sportspeople from Torquay
- People from Newton Abbot
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century English sportswomen