Jane Mayes
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Esbjerg, Denmark | 10 January 1989
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) (2012)[1] |
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) (2012)[1] |
Sport | |
Sport | Handball |
Position | Goalkeeper |
Team |
Jane Mayes (born 10 January 1989) is a Danish-British handball goalkeeper.[2] She plays for Team Esbjerg and the British national team, and competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[3][4]
Early life
[edit]Mayes was born on 10 January 1989 in Esbjerg to Richard John Mayes and Pia Mayes.
Mayes has played handball since the age of six.
Her father, Richard John Mayes died of lung cancer in 1999.
In 2007, she broke into the British national team for handball.[5]
In 2010, she was selected by Team GB to be part of a pool of potential handball Olympians and lost 6 stone to make the team.[1]
2012 Olympics
[edit]She competed for Team GB in Women's Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Jane Mayes - Team GB - London 2012 Olympics - Telegraph". The Telegraph. 24 July 2012. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Jane Mayes Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ "Jane Mayes". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 May 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ "Jane Mayes - Olympics Official". Olympic.org. Olympics.
- ^ "Handball set to flourish in Britain after Olympics". European Handball Federation. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
External links
[edit]- Jane Mayes at Olympedia
- Jane Mayes at Team GB
Categories:
- Danish female handball players
- British female handball players
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players for Great Britain
- British people of Danish descent
- Sportspeople from Esbjerg
- Handball players from the Region of Southern Denmark
- Danish people of British descent
- 21st-century Danish sportswomen
- British sportspeople stubs
- European handball biography stubs