Sanya Richards

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Medal record
Sanya at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens	4x400 m relay
World Championships
Gold	2003 Paris	4x400 m relay
Gold	2007 Osaka	4x400 m relay
Silver	2005 Helsinki	400 m

Sanya Richards (born February 26, 1985 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Richards left Jamaica for the USA at the age of 12 and became a US citizen in May 2002. At St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, she lettered in basketball in high school and is a member of the National Honor Society, ending her high school academic career with a 4.0 grade point average. In 2002 she was named National High School Female Athlete of the Year, USA Track and Field's Youth Athlete of the Year, and Track and Field News Women's Prep Athlete of the Year.

Richards graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 with a degree in management information systems. She is a singer and a dancer, regularly putting on shows for family and friends. Since 2007, she has been engaged to current New York Giants cornerback & Super Bowl champion, Aaron Ross. They have been dating since 2003.^[1]

She has won a silver medal in the 400 meters at 2005 World Championships in Athletics. In 2006, together with Jeremy Wariner (400 m) and Asafa Powell (100 m) she won her sixth out of six Golden League events (100 m) in the same season, which earned her a total of $250,000. She broke Valerie Brisco-Hooks' US record of 48.83 with a 48.70 at the end of the 2006 season and was named IAAF 2006 Female World Athlete of the Year^[2]

1 Major achievements
2 Audio interview
3 Video Interviews
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Major achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Event	Place	Result
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	200m	3rd	23.09
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	400m	2nd	51.49
2003	World Championships	Saint-Denis, France	400m	11th	51.32
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	400m	6th	50.19
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	400m	2nd	49.74
2005	World Athletics Final	Monaco, Monaco	400m	1st	49.52
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	400m	9th	52.46
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	200m	2nd	22.17
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	400m	1st	49.25
	World Cup	Athens, Greece	400m	1st	48.70
	World Cup	Athens, Greece	200m	1st	22.23
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	200m	5th	22.70