Jan Khan
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Nationality | New Zealander | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 25 April 1958 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Beckenham BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jan Maraea Khan(born 25 April 1958 inRotorua, New Zealand) is an international lawn bowls competitor forNew Zealand.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Jan is ofPakistanidescent through her father, and ofYugoslavandMaoridescent through her mother.[2][3]Both she and her sisterMarina Khanare the daughters of lawn bowlerMillie Khan.
Bowls career
[edit]At the2002 Commonwealth Games,she won abronze medalin the women's fours event. At the2006 Commonwealth Gamesshe again won a bronze in the women's pairs event with her sisterMarina Khan.[4][5]
She has won five medals at theAsia Pacific Bowls Championships,of which three have been gold medals.[6]
Khan won the 2010 singles title and the 1997, 2000 & 2001 fours title at theNew Zealand National Bowls Championshipswhen bowling for the Beckenham Bowls Club.[7]
References
[edit]- ^"Athletes and Results".Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^Longmore, Andrew (16 September 1998)."Spiritual guidance for Khan".The Independent.Retrieved6 February2015.
- ^Ratttue, Chris (8 January 2010)."My life in sport: Jan Khan".The New Zealand Herald.Retrieved6 February2015.
- ^Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^"COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS".GRB Athletics.
- ^"Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners"(PDF).World Bowls.Retrieved31 May2021.
- ^"New Zealand Championships".Bowls Tawa.
- Living people
- 1958 births
- New Zealand female bowls players
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Rotorua
- New Zealand people of Pakistani descent
- New Zealand people of Yugoslav descent
- New Zealand Māori sportspeople
- Bowls World Champions
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games