Samantha Majendie-Albert (born 31 May 1971) is a

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-born

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who represents

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in international competition. She was born in

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, Canada to a Jamaican mother and an English father, and grew up in

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and

. She moved to Bassett,

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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 and 2012 Summer Olympic individual equestrian events. Samantha was married to the fellow eventing rider Dag Albert, who represented

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at two Olympics. They have divorced in 2005.

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Samanta Albert – Jamaica – Olympics 2008
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