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Jenny Wallis

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Jenny Wallis
Personal information
NationalityHongkonger
Medal record
Representing Hong Kong Hong Kong
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Auckland fours
Asia Pacific Bowls Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Victoria triples
Silver medal – second place 1993 Victoria fours

Jenny Wallis is a former Hong Kong international lawn bowler.[1]

Bowls career

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She won a bronze medal in the fours at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland,[2] with Naty Rozario, Angela Chau and Yee Lai Lee.[3] In addition she competed in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.[4]

She won a fours silver medal and a triples bronze medal at the 1993 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in Victoria, Canada.[5]

Personal life

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She married Ken Wallis[2] and they moved to Australia when she was appointed director of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Sydney.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  2. ^ a b "Crocodile Smith". Cambridge Daily News. 23 January 1990. Retrieved 9 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Hong Kong team achievements". HKLBA.
  4. ^ "ATHLETES & RESULTS". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  5. ^ "1993 Asia Pacific Championships" (PDF). Bowls USA.
  6. ^ "Farewell to the empire: Ken Wallis, Hong Kong's last-ever Commonwealth Games medal winner, recalls Victoria 1994". South China Morning Post. 3 April 2018.