Hester Bekker
Hester Bekker is a former international lawn and indoor bowls competitor for South Africa.
In 1996 she won the gold medal in the triples at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide. Four years later Bekker just missed out on a bronze medal after losing the triples bronze play off match in Moama.
She was part of the fours team that won the gold medal at both the 1994 Commonwealth Games, it was the first time that South Africa had won a gold medal since 1958, following the return from their Anti-Apartheid Movement Commonwealth ban enforced in 1961.
She won another gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.