Millie Khan

Millie Cecilia Khan was a lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.

Personal life

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. Two of her daughters were also New Zealand representative lawn bowlers.

Bowls career

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 eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including four gold medals.
Khan won a total of eleven New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles; four in the singles ; two in the pairs and five in the fours bowling for the Matamata Bowling Club.

Honours and awards

In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Khan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls.
In 2013, Khan was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.