Alison Merrien is a famous indoor bowls player from Guernsey. Let’s find out more about her and her husband, Ian Merrian.
Alison Jayne Merrien is both an indoor and outdoor bowls player from Saint Peter Port, Guernsey. Bowls is the game in which the player rolls the biased ball so that it stops near a small ball called jack or kitty.
The game is played on a bowling green. The green may be flat or uneven.
In 2011, she won double gold in the women’s single defeating Karen Murphy and the mixed pairs with Simon Skelton in World Indoor Bowls Championship.
In 2008 and 2012, she won two titles in the southern hemisphere equivalent to the World Cup Singles and was runner up in three more games.
She won three singles titles in IIBC in 2009, 2011, and 2015 and mixed pair championships in 2001 and 2004.
In 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2015, Alison won the national title of the British Isles Indoor Woman’s Singles Championships. In 2015, she also won the British Isles Indoor Woman’s Pairs Championships.
In 2007, in the World Singles Champion of Champions final, she defeated Siti Zalina Ahmad and won the gold medal.
The bowls player is also awarded the Most Excellent Award Order of The British Empire in the 2012 New Honours List.
In the News ? Merrien makes History
Four-time Commonwealth Games bowler Alison Merrien has scooped another World Championship crown and has retained her IIBC title.
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? – Ian Merrien #TeamGuernsey ?? pic.twitter.com/VK18j5OrpN
— Guernsey Commonwealth Games Association ?? (@GuernseyCGA) April 22, 2019
Alison Merrien’s Husband: Who Is He?
Alison Merrian’s husband is Ian Merrian. Ian Merrian is Guernsey’s international lawn bowler. Ian has also represented Guernsey in Commonwealth Games.
In the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Ian represented in singles, in triples in the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and pairs in the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
At the Atlantic Bowls Championship, he won the triple bronze medal in 2007. Both the husband and wife are the most successful bowl players in Guernsey.
The insights into the couple’s lives have not been revealed.
Congratulations to Alison Merrien MBE ?? and Paul Foster MBE ???????
Mixed Pairs champions at the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championships#playbowls #BBCbowls pic.twitter.com/rBOO7k36fm
— Bowls International (@BowlsInt) January 18, 2022
Alison Merrien and Ian Merrien’s Age: How Old Tall Are They?
Alison Merrian is currently 47 years old and her husband Ian Merrien is 48 years old. Alison was born on 28 November 1974 and Ian Merrien was born on 23 July 1973.
The husband and wife have an age difference of a year. The height of both the bowls player is not known.
Ian and Alison are not active on any social media handles. So, the photos of them are not available.
Bowls pair of Shirley Petit and Alison Merrien are the winners, for winning gold in the British Isle Indoor Championships pairs event
— Guernsey Press Sport (@GsyPressSport) January 15, 2015
Alison has earned various national titles, which made her qualified for the World Champion of Champions.
Two years after her international outings, she returned to play in the mixed pairs and singles at WIBC’s annual home of Potters Resort.
In 2020, she had reached to semi-finals of the singles but lost to Julie Forrest of Scotland.