Jamile Samuel

Jamile Samuel
Jamile Samuel in Berlin 2018
Full name	Jamile Sara Samuel
nation	Netherlands
birthday	24th April 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Amsterdam , Netherlands
size	168 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Phanos
Trainer	Bart Bennema
status	active
Medal table
European championships 1 × 2 × 1 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 3 × U20 European Championships 0 × 2 × 0 ×
European championships silver Helsinki 2012 4 × 100 m gold Amsterdam 2016 4 × 100 m silver Berlin 2018 4 × 100 m bronze Berlin 2018 200 m  Junior World Championships bronze Moncton 2010 100 m bronze Moncton 2010 200 m bronze Moncton 2010 4 × 100 m  Junior European Championships silver Tallinn 2011 100 m silver Tallinn 2011 200 m
last change: October 16, 2019

Jamile Sara Samuel (born April 24, 1992 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch sprinter .

Athletic career

Jamile Samuel gained his first international experience in 2008 at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz , where she finished sixth in the 200-meter run in 23.76 s and was eliminated in the semifinals over 100 meters with 11.79 s. In addition, she retired with the Dutch 4 x 100 meter relay with 45.21 s in the first round. The following year she reached the semi-finals at the Junior European Championships in Novi Sad in the 100-meter run and was eliminated there with 12.05 seconds. In 2010 she again took part in the Junior World Championships in Moncton , Canada , where she won the bronze medals over 100 and 200 meters in 11.56 s and 23.27 s, and also with the relay in 44.09 s. Then she received a starting place in the relay for the European Championships in Barcelona , in which she did not qualify for the final with 44.70 s. The following year, she won the silver medal over 100 and 200 meters behind the Briton Jodie Williams at the Junior European Championships in Tallinn in 11.43 s and 23.31 s respectively . In addition, she was disqualified with the relay in the run-up. With the relay she also took part in the World Championships in Daegu and did not reach the final with 43.44 s. In 2012 she took part in the 60-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul and was eliminated there with 7.47 seconds. Then she reached the finals at the European Championships in Helsinki over 200 meters, where she finished sixth in 23.55 s and won the silver medal behind Germany in 42.80 s with the relay. This qualified the relay for the Olympic Games in London , where they were eliminated with a new national record of 42.70 s in the lead .

Jamile Samuel (l.) And Dafne Schippers in Berlin 2018

In 2013, she made it to the semi-finals at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg over 60 meters, where she was eliminated with 7.26 seconds. In early July, she was eliminated from the U23 European Championships in Tampere over 100 meters with 12.08 s in the first round and came fourth with the relay in 44.18 s. At the World Championships in Moscow , she started with the relay and could not qualify for the final there with 43.26 s. Also at the indoor world championships in Sopot the following year , she reached the semi-finals over 60 meters and was eliminated there with 7.39 seconds. In the summer she was eliminated from the European Championships in Zurich over 100 meters with 11.54 s in the semi-finals and was sixth over 200 meters in 23.31 s. In addition, she did not make it to the finish with the relay in the final. At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2015 in Prague , she was seventh over 60 meters in 7.19 s and at the World Championships in Beijing she was disqualified in the preliminary stages, as was the relay, with which she reached the final. At the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland , she was eliminated over 60 meters with 7.16 s in the semifinals, before she came fourth at the European Home Championships in Amsterdam over 200 meters in 22.83 s. In addition, she celebrated her greatest success to date by winning the gold medal in the relay in 42.04 s. So she qualified again for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated over 200 meters with 23.04 s in the preliminary round. In addition, she just did not reach the final with the season in 42.88 s .

At the IAAF World Relays 2017 in the Bahamas, she finished fourth in the 4 x 100 meter relay in 43.17 s and over 100 meters she was eliminated at the World Championships in London with 11.52 s in the preliminary round while she came eighth with the season in the finals in 43.08 s. At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , she was eliminated over 60 meters with 7.34 seconds and in August she won the bronze medal over 200 meters behind British Dina Asher-Smith and her compatriot Dafne at the European Championships in Berlin in 22.37 seconds Schippers . In addition, she finished fifth over 100 meters in 11.14 s and won the silver medal with the relay behind the United Kingdom in 42.15 s. The following year she retired at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 7.31 s in the semifinals and qualified over 200 meters again for the World Championships in Doha , where she was eliminated with 23.02 s in the semifinals . In addition, she could not qualify for the final with the season in 43.01 s.

In 2009, 2017 and 2018, Samuel became the Dutch champion in the 100-meter run and in 2011 and 2012, 2015 and 2019 also over 200 meters. In 2009, she secured the title in the 60-meter run indoors.

Top performances

• 100 meters: 11.10 s (+0.3 m / s), August 7, 2018 in Berlin
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.14 s, February 13, 2016 in Berlin
• 200 meters: 22.37 s (+0.9 m / s), July 22, 2018 in London
  • 200 meters: 23.64 s on January 14, 2012 in Gent

Web links

Commons : Jamile Samuel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jamile Samuel in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jamile Samuel in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )