Sanya Richards-Ross
Sanya Richards -Ross at the World Championships 2011 in Daegu
Sanya Richards -Ross (born 26 February 1985 in Kingston) is an American sprinter of Jamaican descent whose special route is the 400-meter distance. She is four -time Olympic gold medalist and five -time World Champion.
Career
At the age of twelve years, Richards moved with her parents from Jamaica to the United States whose nationality they have since 2002. She graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale and was 2002 national high school athlete of the year chosen as the Athletics Youth Athlete of the Year.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she finished sixth in the 400 -meter run. In the 4 x 400 - meter relay, she was together with her teammates DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson and Monique Hennagan Olympic champion. Already at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint- Denis she had won the gold medal in the relay.
2005 at the World Championships in Helsinki she won the silver medal. At the U.S. Trials for the 2007 World Championships as she could, even though they had long been unbeaten on the 400 m, not qualify for this route because they finished only fourth place on the stadium round. However, they qualified for the 200 -meter run and was over this distance in 22.70 seconds at the World Championships in Osaka Fifth. World Champion it was then. Relay with the U.S. in the 4 x 400 meters relay with the Weltjahresbestzeit of 3:18,55 min
In the 2008 Olympics she won the bronze medal in the 400 -meter run. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, she won the gold in the individual distance of 400 meters and in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. They also won the 2009 all six meetings of the IAAF Golden League jackpot, and thus the amount of 333,333.33 U.S. dollars.
In 2011 she was over 400 m at the World Championships in Daegu Seventh and defended in the 4 x 400 meters relay with the U.S. team for the title. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, she confirmed in the 400 -meter run and took their role as favorites with a time of 49.55 s the gold medal.
Sanya Richards has a competition weight of 61 kg at a height of 1.73 m. She is studying at the University of Texas and is considered a talented singer and dancer. She suffers from a Behcet's Disease, a rare autoimmune illness that causes partial restrictions in training by itself. On 26 February 2010 she married the football player Aaron Ross.
Personal Best
- 60 m (Hall ): 7.21 s, February 28, 2004 Lincoln
- 100 m: 10.97 s 28 September, 2007, Shanghai
- 200 m: 22.17 s, September 9, 2006, Stuttgart Hall: 22,49 s, March 12, 2004 Fayetteville
- Hall: 50.82 s, March 13, 2004 Fayetteville