World Championships In 2004, she won the
gold medal in the
fours with
Jayne Christie,
Jean Baker and
Amy Monkhouse at the
2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. In 2016, she was part of the
fours team with
Rebecca Wigfield,
Wendy King and
Jamie-Lea Winch who won the silver medal at the
2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in
Christchurch. She then won a
bronze medal in the
pairs with
Sophie Tolchard. In 2020 she was selected for the
2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.
Commonwealth Games Ellen represented England at the
2002 Commonwealth Games winning gold in the fours and eight years later won another gold at the
2010 Commonwealth Games in the
woman's pairs competition with
Amy Monkhouse. Ellen also competed in the
2014 Commonwealth Games and won a further gold in the
women's triples event with
Sophie Tolchard and
Sian Gordon. She was selected as part of the
England team for the
2018 Commonwealth Games, on the
Gold Coast in
Queensland where she won a
bronze medal in the
Triples with
Katherine Rednall and
Sian Honnor.
World Indoor Championship Falkner won a third World Indoor singles title during the
2016 World Indoor Bowls Championship after defeating
Rebecca Field in the final. This success came ten years after her previous two victories. In 2019 she won the mixed pairs gold with
Robert Paxton at the
2019 World Indoor Bowls Championship. At the
2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship Falkner became the first female player to reach the final of the open pairs event (playing with
Greg Harlow).
Atlantic Championships In 2005 she won the triples and fours gold medals at the
Atlantic Bowls Championships. After a singles bronze and pairs silver in 2009 she won the fours gold medal and triples silver medal at the 2011 Atlantic Championships in Cyprus. Four years later in 2015 she won the triples silver medal and fours bronze medal at the Championships, also in Cyprus.
National After winning the 2011
National singles crown she subsequently won the singles at the
British Isles Bowls Championships in 2012. She also won the two wood title in 2011 and has won eleven National titles in total; two singles, three CofC, four
pairs (2007, 2008, 2012, 2017 all with Sue Alexander), one
triples (2007) and one junior title. In 2023, (Falkner now living in Australia and working as the Bowls Australia High Performance Manager for Para Bowls) won the
Australian National Bowls Championships fours title with Jamie-Lee Worsnop,
Ellen Ryan and
Karen Murphy.
National titles • 2004
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Junior Pairs) • 2007
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Pairs) • 2007
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Triples) • 2008
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Pairs) • 2011
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Singles Four Wood) • 2011
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Singles Two Wood) • 2012
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Pairs) • 2017
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Pairs) • 2017
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Champion of Champions) • 2019
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Champion of Champions) • 2021
Bowls England National Championships (Women's Champion of Champions) • 2023
Australian National Bowls Championships Fours == References ==