Samantha Majendie-Albert (born 31 May 1971) is a
Canadian
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-born
equestrian
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Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
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* Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
who represents
Jamaica
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in international competition.
She was born in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, Canada to a Jamaican mother and an English father, and grew up in
Canada
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and
Jamaica
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. She moved to
Bassett,
England
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in 1989 where she currently resides.
[Hurbun Williams (4 March 2006)]
"Samantha Albert's expensive ride to the Olympics"
''Jamaica Observer''. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
Albert competed at the
2007 Pan Am Games and represented Jamaica in the
2008 Summer Olympic
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
and
2012 Summer Olympic individual
equestrian events.
Samantha was married to the fellow eventing rider
Dag Albert, who represented
Sweden
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at two Olympics. They have divorced in 2005.
References
External links
Samantha Albert Official Site– Yahoo! Eurosport UK
1971 births
Canadian emigrants to England
Canadian people of English descent
Canadian people of Jamaican descent
Equestrians at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic equestrians of Jamaica
Equestrians at the 2007 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica
Sportspeople from Montreal
Jamaican female equestrians
Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in England
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in England
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