Anne Lorraine Gales

Anne Lorraine P. Gales (born 1989) is a Danish ten-pin bowler. A two time European gold and two time world bronze medalist, known for her calm poker-face. She finished in 13th position of the combined rankings at the 2008 AMF World Cup in Hermosillo, Mexico, and placed 9th at the 2009 World Ranking Masters in Napoli, Italy.

Early life
Anne Lorraine Gales is born and raised in Copenhagen, though her family originates from the Philippines; explaining her exotic features. She is of Arabian, Anglo-Indian, Chinese, Irish,and Spanish admixtures. Anne is also the granddaughter of prewar Filipino-Hispanic actress, Fe Amorsolo.

Before becoming a competitive bowler, Anne Lorraine was a pianist and active swimmer.

Though an athlete, she has stated her idol is her grandmother Amparo Pilapil, also known as Fe Amorsolo.

Bowling Biography
Anne Lorraine's first national recognition was at the age of 15, when she was honored with the title of Youth Bowling Player of the Year in 2004 by the Danish bowling federation.

In 2005, Anne Lorraine made her first international achievement along with teammate Mie Agerbo by defeating Swedes, Sanna Helldén and Caroline Jonsson in the Doubles event, while breaking three European records at the European Youth Championships, ETBF, held in Belgium. The following year, she and partner Sofie Lomholdt won a silver medal in the same category, the 2006 Doubles Event, in Rødovre, Denmark, with only 19 pins up to British girls, Hayley White and Sarah Overall. The very same year, 2006, Anne Lorraine was selected to play at the Women's European Championship held in Stuttgart, Germany. Her first international tournament with the senior national women's team, bring home a bronze medal.

In 2008, the Danish Trio was seeded as 4th, before the semi finales. Rikke Holm Agerbo, Kamilla Kjeldsen and Anne Lorraine Gales from the host country of Denmark, won the gold medal in trios against Nadege Maitre, Marylin Planchard and Isabelle Saldjian from France, at the 2nd Women's European Championships in Odense, and together as a team won third place, earning them all a bronze medal.

Year 2009, Anne Lorraine was selected to participate for the first time at the Women's World Championship, WTBA, hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada. She and Rikke Holm Agerbo placed third, losing to Koreans Gang Hye Eun and Hwang Sun Ok, earning them a bronze medal. Kamilla Kjeldsen reunited with the pair for the Trios event as favorites, and were seeded as third. They played against Taipei's Tsai Hsin-Yi, Yang Hao-Ting and Tang Ya-Chun at the semi-finales, but lost, placing them with a bronze medal together with Japan.

Anne Lorraine participates in a variety of international tournaments, such as the AMF World Cup, Asian tournaments, European Bowling Tour etc. and leagues in both Denmark and Sweden.