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- Meet and have your photo taken
with World champion Discuss thrower, Dani Samuels (2pm-3pm)
- Try and out-throw the world discuss Champion
- Play frisbee
Dani
Samuels, 21 years old (born 26 May 1988), is the current
Discuss World Champion, after taking out the title at the
2009 Berlin World Championships. Samuels is the youngest
female in history to win the event and the first ever Australian
female to win the world championship in a field event.
In 2008, Samuels was the youngest member of the Australian
Olympic Track and Field team, she went on to be the youngest
person in the finals of the event at Beijing and gained
ninth place. Following her historic win this year in Berlin;
Dani Samuels is now listed third on the Australian all-time
list for Discus.
Dani was born in Fairfield and grew up in Merrylands.
She attended school at Westfields Sports High School and
represented Greystanes Little Athletics Club. She is also
an accomplished Shot Putter and Basketball player. If you have
an entertainment or cultural act that you would like involved
in the Family Fun Fair 09, please see entertainment
form or email rebecca.ho@touchedbyolivia.com.au
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