"Jane Kara Saville" is an Australian race walking/race walker who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She was born in Sydney.

Saville, from an athletically-inclined family, competed in swimming and surf lifesaving events as well as walking as a junior athlete. She has competed at four Olympics, with a midfield result in 1996 Summer Olympics/1996. In the 20 km racewalking event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in her home city of Sydney, when heading into the stadium's tunnel for the final stretch, Saville was disqualified for an Racewalking#Rules/illegal gait (lifting: a very common occurrence in race walking - the previous leader of the event had already been disqualified). Saville collapsed in tears; afterwards, when asked what she needed, she replied "A gun to shoot myself". Saville recovered her composure soon after and was publicly philosophical about her loss.

On her bronze medal in Athens, Saville stated "Nothing will make up for a gold medal in your home town, but you know this is where the Olympics began and any medal here, you know, I'm absolutely ecstatic with it".

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It's great for walking in Australia, but if we didn't get that we would have been very disappointed.

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Gosh, you wouldn't pass up an opportunity like that.

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This is more stressful in some ways. I don't want to stuff it up but at least there won't be any judges there to worry about how I'm walking or my technique.

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