Jane Mayes (born 10 January 1989) is a Danish-British handball goalkeeper. She plays for

Team Esbjerg Team Esbjerg is a women's handball team based in Esbjerg, Denmark, that competes in the Bambusa Kvindeligaen and the 2022–23 Women's EHF Champions League. They play their home matches in Blue Water Dokken, which have capacity for 2,996 spectat ...

and the British national team, and competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Early life

Mayes was born on 10 January 1989 in

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport town and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban population of 71,698 (1 January 2022)

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. In 2010, she was selected by

Team GB Team GB is the brand name used since 1999 by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for their Great Britain at the Olympics, British Olympic team. The brand was developed after Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nation's poor perfor ...

to be part of a pool of potential handball Olympians and lost 6 stone to make the team.

2012 Olympics

She competed for Team GB in Women's Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

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* 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 {{UK-handball-bio-stub