Samantha Murray

About Samantha Murray

Samantha Murray is an English modern pentathlete. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2012 World Championships. In 2014 she won individual gold and team silver medals at the 2014 World Championships.

Career Highlights:

• 2010-She competed at the Junior World Championships and Junior European Championships in 2010, where the British team won gold in both events.Individually, she finished 8th in the World competition and 15th overall in the European event.The team of Murray, Katy Burke, Freyja Prentice and Heather Fell also competed in the 2010 World Modern Pentathlon Championships, where they placed overall in second place, winning the silver medal. Murray placed in 22nd position in the individual competition in her first senior competition.
  
• 2012-Murray finished in sixth place at the World Cup event in Charlotte, North Carolina, in March 2012.Following that she competed in the Budapest Cup where she was victorious.Her first World Cup medal came in Rostov, Russia, in April 2012, when she won the bronze medal behind Anastasiya Prokopenko and Victoria Tereshchuk. She had been leading going into the final day, but was overtaken during the run/shoot.Along with Mhairi Spence, she was named to the British team at the 2012 Summer Olympics as the two female modern pentathlon competitors,and won the silver medal in the last event of the games.

Samantha Murray Achievements

Medal Records:

Olympic Games

• Silver medal – Modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer OlympicsWomen's
  

World Championships

• Gold medal – 2012 World Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsTeam
  
• Gold medal – 2013 World Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsTeam
  
• Gold medal – 2014 World Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsIndividual
  
• Silver medal – 2010 World Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsTeam
  
• Silver medal – 2014 World Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsTeam
  
• Bronze medal – 2012 World Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsIndividual
  

European Championships

• Gold medal – 2013 European Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsTeam relay
  
• Gold medal – 2013 European Modern Pentathlon ChampionshipsTeam
  

World Cup

• Gold medal – 2015 FIFA World Cup FinalIndividual
  
• Bronze medal – 2012 FIFA World Cup FinalIndividual
  

Junior World Championships

• Gold medal – 2010 Junior World ChampionshipsTeam
  

Junior European Championships

• Gold medal – 2010 Junior European ChampionshipsTeam