Sandra Myers
Sandra Myers ( born January 9, 1961 in Little River ) is a former Spanish athlete, who specialized in the 400 -meter run.
She was born in the United States and in 1981 became U.S. champion in the 400 - meter hurdles. In 1987 she changed her citizenship and launched since then in international championships for Spain. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 she went to the 100 -meter run, but failed in the preliminary round. Myers won in the open and in the hall a total of 19 Spanish titles on various sprint distances of 60 m to 400 m and the long jump.
Internationally, it first drew attention to himself at the European Athletics Championships in 1990 in Split, when she was there in the 200 -meter run fourth and finished sixth with the 4 x 100 - meter relay. The final breakthrough came with winning the silver medal in the 400 - meter race at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1991 in Seville. Barely six years later they celebrated the most important success of her career at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. About 400 m she won the bronze medal in 49.78 s behind Marie -José Perec ( 49.13 s ) and Grit Breuer ( 49.42 s ).
In 1992, Myers at the Indoor Athletics Championships in Genoa the title in the 400 -meter run. About the same distance it was the following year. At the World Indoor Championships in Toronto Fourth and outdoors at the World Championships in Stuttgart Sixth
After that, it did not succeed in completely Myers to tie in with their old services. At the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Barcelona in 1995, at the World Athletics Championships 1995 in Gothenburg and at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, it reached in each case the semifinal round but could not qualify for the finals themselves. Her last international success was winning the title in the 200 -meter run at the Indoor Athletics Championships in Stockholm in 1996. After the 1996 Olympics, she ended her career.
Sandra Myers is 1,70 m tall and had a competition weight of 60 kg. After the end of their sporting career, she was active as a member of the Partido Popular in politics.