Jeanette Baker
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Jeanette Baker-Flynn is an Australia
n ten-pin bowler
. She is the first Australian to win a World Tenpin Championship. She Won the AMF World Cup
in 1982 in Scheveningen in the Netherlands and for a second time in 1983 in Mexico City
, making her the only athlete to win back-to-back AMF World Cup titles ever. She won both titles from top seed.
Following her victory in Scheveningen, Baker took an office job with AMF in Australia. The Australian Tenpin Bowling Congress took notice, saying that the paid employment with a bowling company made Baker a "professional". This complaint was lodged in the days of "pure" amateurism, but an appeal to the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs
, bowling's international governing body, restored Baker's amateur status but not before she had missed out on the 1983 FIQ World Championships.
Baker was named the World Bowling Writers Female Bowler of the Year in 1982 and elected to the (WBW) International Bowling Hall of Fame
in 1994.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n ten-pin bowler
Ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...
. She is the first Australian to win a World Tenpin Championship. She Won the AMF World Cup
AMF World Cup
The AMF World Cup, now a joint partnership between Qubica and AMF , is an annual Ten-pin bowling championship, and one of the largest in terms of number of participating nations...
in 1982 in Scheveningen in the Netherlands and for a second time in 1983 in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, making her the only athlete to win back-to-back AMF World Cup titles ever. She won both titles from top seed.
Following her victory in Scheveningen, Baker took an office job with AMF in Australia. The Australian Tenpin Bowling Congress took notice, saying that the paid employment with a bowling company made Baker a "professional". This complaint was lodged in the days of "pure" amateurism, but an appeal to the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs
Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs
The Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs is the world governing body of nine-pin and ten-pin bowling...
, bowling's international governing body, restored Baker's amateur status but not before she had missed out on the 1983 FIQ World Championships.
Baker was named the World Bowling Writers Female Bowler of the Year in 1982 and elected to the (WBW) International Bowling Hall of Fame
International Bowling Hall of Fame
The World Bowling Writers International Bowling Hall of Fame was established in 1993 and is located in the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, on the International Bowling Campus in Arlington, Texas.-Criteria for election:...
in 1994.