The Greechans (bowls)

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

Lindsey Greechan

Medal record Representing  Jersey World Champion of Champions 2008 Aberdeen Women's Singles WIBC Championships 2008 Swansea Mixed Pairs 2014 Grainville Women's Singles WIBC Championships (U25) 2002 Women's Singles 2004 Women's Singles 2005 Mixed Pairs 2006 Castel Women's Singles Atlantic Rim Games 2007 Ayr Women's Fours

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.^[1] She helped Jersey defeat England in a test series for the first time in 2004.^[2]

At the Atlantic Rim Games in 2007, Lindsey Greechan won gold with Jersey in the Women's Fours event.^[3][4] In 2008, she came away with a bronze medal at the women's World Champion of Champions event.^[5][6]

Lindsey Greechan represented Jersey in lawn bowls at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[7] 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.^[8][9]

Lindsey Greechan has won Jersey's women's outdoor Bowler of the Year three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2012.^[10] Her mother, Gina Le Long, father, Peter Le Long, and brother, Kevin Le Long, have all played or play bowls competitively as well at national and international level for Jersey.^[11][12][13]

Thomas Greechan

Thomas Greechan

Medal record Representing  Jersey World Champion of Champions 2011 Hong Kong Men's Singles WIBC Championships 2015 Grainville Mixed Pairs 2008 Swansea Mixed Pairs Atlantic Rim Games 2007 Ayr Men's Fours

Like his wife, Thomas Greechan also medalled at the 2007 Atlantic Rim Games, with silver in the Men's Fours event.^[3][4] 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.^[14][15]

He claimed Jersey's first senior world title in 2011,^[1] 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.^[16][17]

In 2012, Thomas Greechan was voted Channel Islands' Sports Personality of the Year and won Sports Person of the Year in Jersey.^[18][19] He has also been selected as Jersey's men's outdoor Bowler of the Year twice, in 2005, and 2006.^[20]

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,^[21][22] and in 2007, with his wife, Lindsey, taking part in the latter edition as well.^[23]

Chloe Greechan

Chloe Greechan

Medal record Representing  Jersey WIBC Championships 2015 Grainville Mixed Pairs 2016 Grainville Mixed Pairs

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.^[24][25] Her parents 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.^[26][27] She retained the title a year later (with Malcolm De Sousa).

Titles and finals

	Championship	Event	Year	Result	Ref
Lindsey Greechan	WIBC Championships (WIBC)	Ladies U25 Singles	2002	Won	[28]
			2004, 2006	Runner-up	[28][29][30]
		U25 Mixed Pairs	2004, 2005	Runner-up	[28][29][31]
		Ladies Singles	2014	Runner-up	[28][32][33]
	Atlantic Rim Games	Women's Fours	2007	Won	[3][4]
	British Isles Outdoor Championships (BIWBC)	Ladies Singles	2008	Won	[34][35][36]
			2013	Runner-up	[37][38][39]
		Ladies Triples	2011	Runner-up	[40]
			2013	Won	[37][38][39]
	British Isles Indoor Championships (BIWIBC)	Ladies U25 Singles	2003, 2004	Runner-up	[41][42][43][44]
		Ladies Pairs	2011	Runner-up	[45]
		Ladies Fours	2014	Runner-up	[46]
	Channel Islands Outdoor Championships	Ladies Singles	2007	Won	[47]
		Ladies Triples	2009, 2010, 2012, 2015	Won	[48]
		Open U35 Singles	2004	Won	[49][50]
		Mixed Pairs	2004, 2005	Won	[49][50][51]
		Open Pairs	2004	Won	[49][50]
		Open Fours	2004	Won	[49][50]
	Channel Islands Indoor Championships	Ladies U25 Singles	2004, 2006	Won	[52][53][54][55]
			2005	Runner-up	[56][57]
		Ladies Triples	2005	Won	[56][57]
			2004, 2006, 2007	Runner-up	[52][53][55][58]
		Ladies Fours	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007	Runner-up	[52][53][56][57][58][59]
		Ladies Pairs	2007	Runner-up	[58]
	Jersey Outdoor Championships (BJA)	Ladies Sets Singles	2005, 2006, 2008	Won	[60][61][62]
		Ladies Singles	2007, 2008, 2012, 2013	Won	[62][63]
		Ladies Pairs	2008	Won	[62][64]
		Ladies Triples	2009, 2010, 2012, 2015	Won	[65]
		Ladies Champion of Champions	2014	Won	[66]
	Jersey Indoor Championships (JIBA)	Ladies Singles	2005, 2008, 2013	Runner-up	[67][68][69][70]
		Ladies Triples	2005, 2006	Won	[71][72]
		Ladies Fours	2002, 2003, 2004, 2005	Won	[73]
Thomas Greechan	World Champion of Champions (WB)	Men's Singles	2011	Won	[74][75]
	Atlantic Rim Games	Men's Fours	2007	Runner-up	[3][4]
	British Isles Indoor Championships (BIIBC)	Men's Fours	2010, 2012	Won	[76][77][78]
	Channel Islands Outdoor Championships	Men's Singles	1999, 2007	Won	[79]
		Men's Pairs	2000, 2002	Won	[80]
		Men's U25 Singles	2000	Won	[81]
		Men's Fours	2002, 2004, 2010, 2014	Won	[82]
		Men's Triples	2005	Won	[83]
	Channel Islands Indoor Championships	Men's Pairs	2004	Runner-up	[52][53]
		Men's Triples	2006	Won	[59]
			2004	Runner-up	[52][53]
		Men's Fours	2004, 2006	Won	[52][53][59]
	Jersey Outdoor Championships (BJA)	U25 Men's Singles	1996, 1998, 2000, 2001	Won	[84]
		Men's Pairs	2000, 2002	Won	[85]
		Men's Weekend Singles	2000	Won	[86]
		Men's Fours	2002, 2004, 2010, 2014	Won	[87]
		Men's Triples	2005	Won	[88]
		Men's Sets Singles	2005, 2011	Won	[89]
		Men's Singles	2007, 2008, 2010	Won	[90]
Chloe Greechan	WIBC Championships (WIBC)	Mixed Pairs	2016	Won	[91]
	Channel Islands Outdoor Championships	Open Novices Singles	2015	Won	[92]
	Jersey Outdoor Championships (BJA)	Open Pairs	2013	Won	[93]
		U18 Open Pairs	2013, 2014	Won	[94]
		Novices Singles	2015	Won	[92][95]
		Mixed Pairs	2015	Runners-up	[95]
Lindsey & Thomas Greechan	WIBC Championships (WIBC)	Mixed Pairs	2008	Runners-up	[26][27][96]
	Channel Islands Outdoor Championships	Open Fours	2005	Runners-up	[51]
		Mixed Pairs	2012	Won	[97]
	Jersey Outdoor Championships (BJA)	Mixed Pairs	2012	Won	[98]
Lindsey & Chloe Greechan	Jersey Outdoor Championships (BJA)	Ladies Triples	2015	Won	[95]
Thomas & Chloe Greechan	WIBC Championships (WIBC)	Mixed Pairs	2015	Won	[99][100]

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