Dani Samuels

Dani Samuels

Dani Samuels in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1988-05-26) 26 May 1988 (age 28)
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Discus
Club	Westfields Athletics Club
Medal record World Championships 2009 Berlin Discus throw Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Discus throw 2006 Melbourne Discus throw Universiade 2009 Belgrade Discus throw 2007 Bangkok Discus throw World Junior Championships World Junior Championshipss Discus World Youth Championships World Youth Championships Discus World Youth Championships Shot Put
Updated on 27 July 2015.

Dani Samuels (born 26 May 1988 in Fairfield, New South Wales) is an Australian discus thrower who in 2009 became the youngest ever female world champion in the event.

After winning the discus gold and shot put bronze medals at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics, she went on to win the bronze medal in the discus at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne at the age of seventeen. She won the discus silver at the 2007 Summer Universiade and represented Australia at her first World Championships in Athletics soon after. She reached the final of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and improved significantly the following year to win the gold medal at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

Samuels is one of only nine athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, and David Storl) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event. Her personal best throws are 67.99 m for the discus and 17.05 metres in the shot put.