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Born | 9 July 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Archery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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]