Hester Bekker
Personal information
NationalitySouth African
Sport
ClubLeases, Sables
Medal record
Representing  South Africa
World Outdoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1996 Adelaidetriples
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria fours
Gold medal – first place 1998 Kuala Lumpur fours
Atlantic Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place1995 Durbantriples
Silver medal – second place1995 Durbanfours
Gold medal – first place1997 Llandrindod Wellsfours
Gold medal – first place1999 Cape Townfours
Silver medal – second place1999 Cape Townpairs

Hester Bekker is a former international lawn and indoor bowls competitor for South Africa.[1]

Bowls career

In 1996, Bekker won the gold medal in the triples at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide.[2] Four years later, Bekker just missed out on a bronze medal after losing the triples bronze play off match in Moama.

She was part of the fours team that won the gold medal at both the 1994 Commonwealth Games, it was the first time that South Africa had won a gold medal since 1958, following the return from their Anti-Apartheid Movement Commonwealth ban enforced in 1961.[3]

She won another gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.[4]

Bekker has won five medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 1995 she won triples gold medal and fours silver medal in her home country.[5][6] Two years later in 1997 she won the fours gold medal in Wales[7][8] before winning two more medals in Cape Town during 1999, including a third Atlantic Championships gold.

References

  1. ↑ "Player profiles". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  2. ↑ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  3. ↑ "South African bowlers lift gold". UPI.
  4. ↑ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  5. ↑ "Jones, D.R. (1995) 'S Africa's bowlers reclaim top spot'". The Times. 24 April 1995. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  6. ↑ "'For the Record' (1995)". The Times. 1 May 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  7. ↑ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Hawes and Price take title for England'". The Times. 27 August 1997. p. 39. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  8. ↑ "Dunwoodie, G. (1997) 'Price savours singular feat'". The Times. 3 September 1997. p. 46. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
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