Agnes Samaria

Agnes Samaria
Agnes Samaria (right) at the 2007 World Championships
nation	Namibia
birthday	August 11, 1972
place of birth	Windhoek,  South West Africa
Career
discipline	400 meters 800 meters 1000 meters 1500 meters
Best performance	53.83 seconds 1: 59.15 minutes 2: 34.19 minutes 4: 05.30 minutes
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Type of medals 0 × 1 × 4 ×
African Athletics Championships silver 2002 Tunis 800 meters bronze 2008 Addis Ababa 800 meters bronze 2008 Addis Ababa 1500 meters Commonwealth Games bronze 2002 Manchester 800 meters World Athletics Finals bronze 2007 Stuttgart 1500 meters

Agnes Samaria (born August 11, 1972 in Otjiwarongo , South West Africa ) is a former Namibian middle-distance runner . The track and field athlete is three times Namibian “Sportswoman of the Year” and since October 27, 2005 “Goodwill Ambassador” of the United Nations International Children's Fund . After retiring from competitive sports, she became team leader at the Namibian Athletics Association.

The full-time teacher won medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. In addition, Agnes Samaria took part in the World Athletics Championships 2001 in Edmonton , 2003 in Paris , 2005 in Helsinki and 2007 in Osaka, as well as the Olympic Games in 2000 , 2004 and 2008 for her country.

Samaria's personal bests are:

• 400 meters 53.83 seconds on February 12, 2001 (in Potchefstroom ),
• 800 meters 1: 59.15 minutes on July 29, 2002 (in Manchester ),
• 1000 meters 2: 34.19 minutes on August 30, 2002 (in Brussels ) and
• 1500 meters 4: 5.30 minutes on July 29, 2008 (in Monaco ).

The personal trainer of Agnes Samaria was the Saarland national trainer Willi Gernemann .

Web links

Commons : Agnes Samaria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Agnes Samaria in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Allgemeine Zeitung Windhoek: Photo for the freestyle "Sportswoman of the year 2005"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.africanathletics.org March 6, 2011