Sandra Myers

Sandra Myers medal table
Sprinter
Spain
World championships
bronze	1991 Tokyo	400 m
Indoor world championships
silver	1991 Seville	400 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	1992 Genoa	400 m
gold	1996 Stockholm	200 m

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 became the US champion in the 400-meter hurdles in 1981 . In 1987 she changed her citizenship and has since competed in international championships for Spain. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, she competed in the 100-meter run , but failed in the preliminary round. Myers won a total of 19 Spanish championships outdoors and indoors on various sprint courses from 60 m to 400 m as well as in the long jump .

Internationally, she first drew attention to herself at the European Athletics Championships in Split in 1990 , when she came fourth in the 200-meter run and finished sixth in the 4-by-100-meter relay . Her final breakthrough came with winning the silver medal in the 400-meter run at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Seville in 1991 . Almost six months later, she celebrated the most important success of her career at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo . Over 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 won the title in the 400-meter run at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Genoa . Over the same distance she was fourth at the indoor world championships in Toronto and sixth outdoors at the world championships in Stuttgart the following year .

After that, Myers did not quite succeed in building on her old achievements. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1995 in Barcelona, ​​at the World Athletics Championships in 1995 in Gothenburg and at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 , she reached the semi-finals but could not qualify for the finals. Her last international success was winning the title in the 200-meter run at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Stockholm in 1996 . After the Olympic Games in 1996, she ended her career.

Sandra Myers is 1.70 m tall and had a competition weight of 60 kg. After the end of her sporting career, she became involved in politics as a member of the Partido Popular .

Top performances

• 100 m: 11.06 s, 23 July 1991, Vigo
• 200 m: 22.38 s, August 30, 1990, Split
• 400 m: 49.67 s, July 6, 1991, Oslo
  • Hall: 50.99 s, March 10, 1991, Seville
• Long jump: 6.60 m, June 1st, 1988, Seville

Web links

• Sandra Myers in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sandra Myers in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )