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}} }} }} The Greechans are a family of bowls players from Jersey. Both Lindsey and Thomas Greechan, wife and husband, compete both indoor and outdoor, as does their daughter Chloe Greechan. All three members of the Greechan family; Thomas, Lindsey and Chloe have all been a world champion on at least one occasion each. == Bowls == Lindsey Greechan became the first bowls player from Jersey to win a bowls world title at any level in 2002, when she won the World Indoor Bowls Council (WIBC) Junior Ladies title.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Jersey wins first world title at World Singles CoC )〕 At the Atlantic Rim Games in 2007, Lindsey Greechan won gold with Jersey in the Women's Fours event, while her husband, Thomas, took silver in the Men's Fours event. Jersey's bowls team, which finished second in the overall combined medal table at the Games, narrowly missed out on 2008 Channel Islands' Team of the Year to Jersey's cricketers. Thomas Greechan claimed Jersey's first senior world title in 2011,〔 winning the men's World Champion of Champions event in Hong Kong. He beat Jonathon Ross of Scotland in a tie-break set 5–0, despite dropping the first set. Previously in 2008, his wife, Lindsey clinched a bronze medal at the women's World Champion of Champions event.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lindsey Greechan )〕 In 2012, Thomas Greechan was voted Channel Islands' Sports Personality of the Year and won Sports Person of the Year in Jersey. He has also been selected as Jersey's men's outdoor Bowler of the Year twice, in 2005, and 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Mens Bowler of the Year Winner )〕 His wife, Lindsey, has won the women's equivalent three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ladies Bowler of the Year Winner )〕 Lindsey Greechan represented Jersey in lawn bowls at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lindsey Greechan )〕 With Katie Nixon, the pair lost to Northern Ireland in the pairs bronze medal match 15–14. Had they won the match, they would have been Jersey's first medalists at the Commonwealth Games for 24 years. In 2015, Chloe Greechan became the youngest ever bowls world champion at 14-years-old, winning the World Indoor Bowls Council Mixed Pairs title with her father, Thomas. Lindsey and Thomas Greechan had lost in the final of the same event in 2008 to another husband-and-wife team of Mervyn and Suzanne King in a tie-break set. In his career as well, Thomas Greechan has also competed for Jersey at the World Outdoor Championships in 2000 and 2012, the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and the European Championships in 1999,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=SPORTS UPDATE: Irvine: We'll just let Mika self-destruct; UPDATE. )〕 and in 2007, with his wife, Lindsey, taking part in the latter edition as well.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2007 Tournament Report )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Greechans (bowls)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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