Jane Waller (born 19 June 1990 in

Gold Coast, Queensland The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...

) is an athlete from Australia who competes in

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. She was an

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

scholarship holder.AIS at the Olympics
At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing Waller finished her ranking round with a total of 634 points. This gave her the 28th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Pranitha Vardhineni Pranitha Vardhineni is an Indian Recurve Archer. Early years Pranitha Vardhineni was introduced to archery during her school years at thRural Development Foundations Kalleda Rural School in Warangal District, Telangana State, India. It was fr ...

in the first round. Despite the archer from India only being the 37th seed, she won the confrontation with 106-100 and eliminated Waller.Athlete biography: Jane Waller
, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008

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1990 births Living people Olympic archers for Australia Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Australian female archers Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland Australian Institute of Sport archers People educated at Lake Ginninderra College {{Australia-archery-bio-stub