title: Sharon Sims
text: # Sharon Sims
  
  Sharon Elmar Sims MNZM (born 24 May 1952) is a New Zealand lawn bowls international.
  
  ## Bowls career
  
  At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along with Jo Edwards in the women's pairs event. At the World Bowls Championships in 2000 she was a triples and fours champion, and in 2004 a pairs champion.
  
  She won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, four of which have been gold medals.
  
  Sims won the 2002 & 2005 singles title and the 1993, 2006, 2007 & 2009 pairs title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Hamilton Bowls Club.
  
  ## Honours and awards
  
  In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sims was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to lawn bowls. In 2013, she was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.
  
  