Jil Grete Walter (born 9 July 2001)[1] is a Samoan archer who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games and Youth Olympic Games. She is the daughter of Samoan archer Mua'ausa Walter.[2]
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| Born | 9 July 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Samoa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walter started competing in archery at the age of nine.[3]
She represented Samoa at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila, Vanuatu, winning silver in both the women's individual recurve and mixed team recurve.[2]
She competed in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but did not advance.[4]
At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia she won gold in the women's recurve,[1][3][5] silver in the women's recurve matchplay, and gold (along with her father Mua'ausa Walter) in the mixed team matchplay.[6][7] Following the competition she gave one of her gold medals to Samoan Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi after he withdrew from the mixed doubles compound category to allow a younger team member to compete.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "Samoa's First Gold Medal to Jil Walter on her 18th Birthday Today". Samoa Global News. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ a b Vatapuia Maiava (27 December 2017). "Father and daughter shooting for the stars". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Samoa's first Pacific Games gold medal is in archery". RNZ. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ "Akash and Himani make pre-quarters at YOG". Sportstar. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ Soli Wilson (9 July 2019). "Jil Walter wins Samoa's first Pacific Games gold". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ "Archery". Samoa 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ Soli Wilson (12 July 2019). "Golden moment for father and daughter team". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ "Samoan PM gifted gold medal by fellow archer". Samoa 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
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