Millie Khan
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| Born | 29 July 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 November 2003 (aged 65) | |||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Ronald Amin Khan | |||||||||||||||
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| National finals | 12 national titles | |||||||||||||||
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Millie Cecilia Khan MBE (29 July 1938 – 24 November 2003) was a lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.
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.
She won a total of twelve national titles in lawn bowls. Two of her daughters (Jan Khan and Marina Khan) are also New Zealand representative lawn bowlers.
In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Khan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls. 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.
In 2013, Khan was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.
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