SCHULTZ Samantha

United States of America

Modern Pentathlon

Date of Birth: 27 Mar 1992

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Place of birth: LITTLETON, CO

Birth Country:

United States of America

Place of residence : COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Modern Pentathlon	Women's Individual	21

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Individual - Fencing Ranking Round	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Individual - Swimming 200m Freestyle Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Individual - Fencing Bonus Round	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Individual - Riding Show Jumping	Finished
	Tokyo Stadium	Women's Individual - Laser Run	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	Individual	Team	Relay W	Relay X
2021	Cairo, EGY	25	10	10	-
2019	Budapest, HUN	-	-	11	-
2018	Mexico City, MEX	36	11	10	-
2016	Moscow, RUS	57	DNS	-	14
2015	Berlin, GER	65	13	-	-
2014	Warsaw, POL	59	11	-	16
2013	Kaohsiung, TPE	-	10	10	-
2012	Rome, ITA	-	-	11	6

Champion of Champions

Year	Location	Individual
2016	Doha, QAT	6

Pan American Games

Year	Location	Individual	Relay W
2019	Lima, PER	2	1

World Cup Final

Year	Location	Individual	Relay X
2019	Tokyo, JPN	22	10
2017	Druskininkai, LTU	30	-

World Cup - Overview per season since 2017

Year	Event	Standings	Three best ranks per season
2021	Individual	68th	1 x 53rd, 1 x 59th
2020	Individual	38th	1 x 38th
2019	Individual	33rd	1 x 24th, 2 x 28th
2018	Individual	55th	1 x 16th, 1 x 48th
2017	Individual	55th	1 x 16th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
16	2018	Individual	Los Angeles, CA, USA	1284
16	2017	Individual	Los Angeles, CA, USA	1259
24	2019	Individual	Cairo, EGY	1267
28	2019	Individual	Prague, CZE	1287
28	2019	Individual	Sofia, BUL	1246
38	2020	Individual	Cairo, EGY	991
48	2018	Individual	Sofia, BUL	961
53	2021	Individual	Sofia, BUL	960
59	2021	Individual	Sofia, BUL	921

Legend
M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Sammy, Sam (Facebook profile, 13 Jan 2020; Facebook page, 12 Jan 2020)

Previous names:

Samatha Achterberg

Outdoor activities, cooking, spending time with family and friends, Pilates, yoga, dancing, skiing. (Facebook page, 12 Jan 2020; teamusa.org, 14 Jul 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Serves in the Army

Health Administration - DeVry University, Downers Grove, IL, USA

Husband Karl Schultz

Languages spoken:

US Olympic & Paralympic Training Center [Colorado Springs, CO, USA]

Omar El Geziry; Dennis Bowsher; Dan Browne

Right (Instagram profile, 07 May 2019)

Other sports:

She competed in triathle and biathle at world championship level. (Facebook page, 12 Jan 2020)

She had a torn labrum in her hip and stress fracture in her femur [thigh bone] in 2012. She decided to have hip surgery to repair the torn labrum in November 2012. (beautifulfighter.com, 01 Jan 2018)

She took up the sport at age 18. (samanthakusa.com, 01 Jan 2020)

"Someone I was riding horses with reached out and was like, 'You run, swim, ride horses and shoot guns, have you ever fenced?' Her daughter did pentathlon, so we met at a horse show and she asked if I'd ever been to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. I hadn't even heard of it." (samanthakusa.com, 01 Jan 2020; teamusa.org, 02 Jul 2019)

Winning a silver medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (gazette.com, 08 Aug 2019)

She has a notebook in which she writes down all the details of her training and competitions. (teamusa.org, 02 Jul 2019)

Philosophy:

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." [Ralph Waldo Emerson]. (teamusa.org, 14 Jul 2019)

General Interest

General
ARMY SERVICE
She joined the army in 2017 and trained under the World Class Athlete programme. "[The Army] is a part of the journey now too. They follow along and they're proud of me. It's a good reminder, when I'm sore and tired after four practices a day, there's someone overseas in Kuwait, sitting there with a gun protecting our country. It puts a lot of stuff in perspective. I try to remind myself of that every day when the first-world problems come up." (gazette.com, 08 Aug 2019; LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2018)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/sammykayusa
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/samanthakusa
https://instagram.com/samanthaausa
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthakusa/
https://twitter.com/samanthaausa
Athlete Website: http://samanthakusa.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazOShNm0GEs39IM8IYYlaw

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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