Katelyn Inch
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Born | 19 August 1995 |
| Education | University of Canterbury |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Lawn bowls |
| Club | Canterbury Bowling Club and Oxford Club Bowls |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Regional finals | Queensland titles 4 |
| National finals | New Zealand titles 2 Australian title 1 |
| Highest world ranking | 14 (June 2024)[1] |
Medal record | |
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Katelyn Inch (born 19 August 1995) is a New Zealand international lawn bowler.[2] She reached a career high ranking of world number 14 in June 2024.[3]
Bowls career
[edit | edit source]World Championships
[edit | edit source]Inch was born in Rangiora and brought up in Oxford, New Zealand. She made her debut for New Zealand in 2015 and won a bronze medal in the fours at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch with Angela Boyd, Val Smith and Kirsten Edwards.[4]
In 2020, she was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]
In 2023, she won the Australian Open fours and was then selected as part of the team to represent New Zealand at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[6] She participated in the women's pairs and the women's fours events.[7][8] In the fours, her team won the bronze medal.
Commonwealth Games
[edit | edit source]She was selected as part of the New Zealand team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland.[9] In 2022, she competed in the women's singles and the women's pairs at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[10] In the pairs she secured a bronze medal.
Other
[edit | edit source]Inch has won three medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, the latest being a gold medal at the 2019 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the Gold Coast, Queensland.[11][12]
In November 2025, partnering Selina Goddard, she won the pairs silver medal at the 2025 Bowls World Cup.[13]
Nationals
[edit | edit source]Inch won the 2019 Australian National Bowls Championships pairs with Julie Keegan[14] and the New Zealand National Bowls Championships singles and pairs in 2020.[15][16]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Katelyn Inch at the New Zealand Olympic CommitteeLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Katelyn Inch at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Katelyn Inch at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 1995 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female bowls players
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- Bowls players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Rangiora
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls