Lawn bowls at the 1980 Summer Paralympics – Women's pairs 2–5

The women's pairs 2–5 was one of the events held in lawn bowls at the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem.

Lawn bowls – Women's pairs 2–5
at the VI Paralympic Games
Competitors3 from 2 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Margaret Maughan & R. Thompson  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yvonne Hawtin & G. Matthews  Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) C. Camilleri & L. Sammut  Malta

There were only three pairs of competitors. Hawtin and Matthews received a bye in the semi-finals, leaving Maughan and Thompson to face Camilleri and Sammut in the only disputed semi. The British pair defeated their Maltese opponents by 13:9. The final was thus an all-British event, where Maughan and Thompson defeated their compatriots with an unrecorded score.[1]

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