Samantha Dale
Samantha Dale is an Australian long jumper. She is a two-time winner of the Australian Athletics Championships and was a gold medalist at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships. She has represented Australia at the World Athletics Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
Career
She jumped 6.72 metres at the Melbourne Track Classic in March 2022, but there was no recorded wind mark. She won the 2021–22 [Australian Athletics Championships] long jump title for the first time in Sydney in 2022, with a jump of 6.45 metres. She competed for Australia at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, placing tenth in the final with a jump of 6.32 metres.She jumped 6.71 metres in Melbourne in February 2023 as she beat 2021 Olympic finalists Tara Davis-Woodhall and Brooke Buschkuehl to win the Maurie Plant Meet. She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
She won the gold medal at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji in June 2024 with a jump of 6.47 metres.
She won the Australian Athletics Championships for a second time in Perth in 2025, jumping 6.45m jump to secure the win ahead of the previous year’s World Under-20 champion Delta Amidzovski. She was selected for the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany, where she qualified for the final with a leap of 6.38m before placing seventh overall.
In September 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.