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| Nationality | Jamaican | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 April 1993 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Discus: 62.94m (Kingston, 2021) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Samantha Hall (born 19 April 1993) is a Jamaican discus thrower and multiple-time national champion. [1]
She attended St Jago High School and the University of Texas El Paso. [2]
She won her first Jamaican national title in June 2021 in Kingston, Jamaica, throwing a personal best distance of 62.94 metres to cause an upset to defeat Jamaican national record holder Shadae Lawrence. [3] [4]
She won the Jamaican national title again in Kingston in June 2022. [5] She made her debut at a global event competing in the discus at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. [6] [7] She placed fifth at the 2022 NACAC Championships in Nassau, Bahamas in August 2022. [8]
She retained her Jamaican national title in 2023 with a throw of 61.40 metres. [9] She competed for Jamaica at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest where she achieved a best throw of 58.43 metres. [10] She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago with a throw of 59.14 metres. [11]
In May 2024, she was announced as one of five athletes to benefit from sponsorship by the Jamaican Olympic Association. [12] [13] She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [14] [15]
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