Sandie Richards

Sandie Richards

Personal information
Born	(1968-11-06) 6 November 1968 Clarendon Park, Jamaica
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Medal record Representing  Jamaica Olympic Games 2000 Sydney 4 × 400 m relay 2004 Athens 4 × 400 m relay World Championships 2001 Edmonton 4 × 400 m relay 1997 Athens 400 m 1993 Stuttgart 400 m 1997 Athens 4 × 400 m relay 2003 Paris 4 × 400 m relay World Indoor Championships 1993 Toronto 400 m 1993 Toronto 4 × 400 m relay 2001 Lisbon 400 m 1995 Barcelona 400 m 1997 Paris 400 m 2001 Lisbon 4 × 400 m relay 2003 Birmingham 4 × 400 m relay Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur 400 m 2002 Manchester 400 m Central American and Caribbean Games 1998 Maracaibo 400 metres World Junior Championships 1986 Athens 400 m

Angella "Sandie" Richards (born 6 November 1968) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. She won four World Championships and two Olympic medals in the 4 x 100 m relay, a silver in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and a bronze at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Career

She was a world junior representative, finishing third in the 400 m at the 1986 Championships. The next year, she won bronze at the World Student Games, followed by her Olympic debut a year later in Seoul, South Korea.

Richards competed for San Jacinto College and then the Texas Longhorns women's track and field team, where she won the 1990 4 × 400 meter relay at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.^[1][2]

In 1998, Richards won Commonwealth gold at 1998 Commonwealth Games and won a 400 m bronze and relay gold at the 1998 Goodwill Games. She was a member of the winning 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2001 World Championships, taking Jamaica's first ever mile relay gold medal in the 18-year history of the championships. At the opening ceremony of the 2001 World Championships, she captained the Jamaican team and carried the flag. She has the record for the most World Indoor final appearances with nine (five at 400 m and four at 4 × 400 m). She graduated in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Jamaica
1984	CARIFTA Games (U-17)	Nassau, Bahamas	2nd	400 m	54.81
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17)	San Juan, Puerto Rico	1st	400 m	55.77
1985	CARIFTA Games (U-20)	Bridgetown, Barbados	2nd	800 m	2:13.18
1986	CARIFTA Games	Les Abymes, Guadeloupe	2nd	200 m	23.66
			1st	400 m	52.18
	World Junior Championships	Athens, Greece	3rd	400 m	52.23

References

External links

• Sandie Richards at World Athletics
• Sandie Richards at Olympics.com
• Sandie Richards at Olympedia
• Sandie Richards at InterSportStats