Career
She has a personal best of 14.09 m (46 ft 21⁄2 in) for the event, which ranks her third among British women. She was the silver medallist at the 2014 and also the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Born in Leicester, she became involved in athletics while at primary school becoming interested after local coaches visited the pupils there.
She joined the Leicester Coritanian Athletics Club and later joined Loughborough University"s athletics team, when she began studying there.
Initially Samuel focused on short sprinting events, but by 2007 she had begun to focus more on long jump. She went on to compete at her first international competition soon after and was the silver medallist at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, setting a British junior record of 13.75 m (45 ft 11⁄4 in) to place second behind the favourite Dailenys Alcántara.
She began working with coach Aston Moore of Birchfield Harriers – one of the country"s top jumping coaches. She went unbeaten indoors in 2014, having wins at the London Indoor Games and Botnia Games before taking the British indoor title.
At the British Championships outdoors she was beaten into second by Yamilé Aldama, bringing an end to Samuel"s four-year streak at the national event.
Samuel outdid her older compatriot in the final as Aldama failed to start the competition in Glasgow. Samuel jumped a personal best mark of 14.09 m (46 ft 21⁄2 in) – adding over thirty centimetres to her four-year-old personal best. This resulted in her taking a surprise silver medal behind Kimberly Williams of Jamaica.
This performance moved her up to third on the all-time British triple jump lists after Ashia Hansen and Aldama.
