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Born | 29 July 1938 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 24 November 2003 | (aged 65)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Ronald Amin Khan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relative(s) | Jan Khan (daughter) Marina Khan (daughter) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Matamata Bowling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National finals | 11 national titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Millie Cecilia Khan MBE (29 July 1938 – 24 November 2003) was a lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.[1]
Khan is of Māori descent through her mother, while her father was a Yugoslav emigrant. She married her husband Ron Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, when she was 16.[2][3][4] Two of her daughters (Jan Khan and Marina Khan) were also New Zealand representative lawn bowlers.[5]
A competitor at four Commonwealth Games; she won a silver medal in the women's singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. She won a bronze medal in the same event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.[6]
She won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including four gold medals.[7]
Khan won a total of eleven New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles; four in the singles (1989, 1990, 1992 and 2000); two in the pairs (1994 and 2000) and five in the fours (1989, 1990, 1997, 2001 and 2002) bowling for the Matamata Bowling Club.[8]
In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Khan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls.[9]
In 2013, Khan was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[10]