Nicky Samuels

0 Nicky Samuels
Nicky Samuels in Lausanne , 2010
Personal information
Date of birth	28th February 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Whangarei, New Zealand
size	170 cm
Weight	55 kg
societies
Current	Triathlon New Zealand elite squad
successes
2012	World Champion ITU Aquathlon
2013	World champion Xterra Cross-Triathlon
2016	13th place Summer Olympics
status
2017 motherhood

Nicky Samuels (born February 28, 1983 in Whangarei ) is a triathlete from New Zealand . She is aquathlon world champion (2012) and world champion cross triathlon (2013).

Career

Nicky Samuels studied at the University of Otago until 2004 . She started triathlon in 2003 and was runner-up in Canada in December in the 20-24 age group.

The multiple New Zealand champion achieved her first World Cup victory in Australia in March 2011.

She starts for the New Zealand national team Triathlon New Zealand elite squad and in France for the TCG 79 Parthenay club .

Aquathlon World Champion 2012

In January 2012, it was New Zealand cycling -Meisterin in the road race . In October she became aquathlon world champion.

In October 2013 she became the Maui Cross Triathlon World Champion ( Xterra racing series). In 2014 she took third place here.
At the Triathlon World Championship as part of the ITU World Championship Series 2014 , she was fifth.

After a restrained 2015 season due to an injury to her leg, she sought a nomination for a starting place at the Olympic Games.
She qualified for a place at the 2016 Summer Olympics and competed for New Zealand on August 20 - together with Tony Dodds , Ryan Sissons and Andrea Hewitt . It ranks 13th in Rio de Janeiro.

World champion cross triathlon 2013

In October 2013 Nicky Samuels became world champion cross triathlon.

Nicky Samuels has been married to Steve Gould since 2009 and they now live in Wanaka . In February 2017, Samuels announced that she was expecting a child and would be on hiatus from the 2017 season.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Nicky Samuels website
• Profile for Nicky Samuels at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 3, 2014
• Nicky Samuels' profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 12, 2018.
• Nicky Samuels in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicky Samuels wins triathlon World Cup race ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Braden Currie's on holiday, Nicky Samuels is not: Wanaka triathletes take stock (April 28, 2016)
3. ↑ Triathlon team named to Rio Olympic Games (May 25, 2016)
4. ↑ ITU World Cup: Long Escape Rewarded ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Surprise at the Kitzbühel Triathlon ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ World Cup series in London: Paula Findlay surprisingly wins, Emma Moffatt only in 9th place
7. ↑ Xterra Maui: Nicky Samuels and Ruben Ruzafa win the world title (October 2013)
8. ↑ First title: Nicky Samuels New Zealand's cycling champion ( memento of the original from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (January 9, 2012)