Samuels and Heiner shine in Doha

NSWIS athletes Dani Samuels and Madeline Heiner have both posted excellent results at the Doha leg of the 2015 Diamond League.

Samuels picked up bronze in the women’s discus to begin her Diamond League campaign in style, earning the medal with a best throw of 64.45m. Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic won gold and Germany’s Nadine Muller took silver, with Samuels’ throw being her second best for 2015.

There was further success for fellow NSWIS athlete Heiner, who set a new personal best of 9:28.41 in the women’s 3000m steeplechase.

Heiner finished sixth in a world class field, unable to match Kenyan Virginia Nyambura who won in a 2015 world leading time, but smash her previous personal best by just under three seconds.