Olympic champ Sanya Richards-Ross wins the 400m by .12 seconds over Amantle Montsho (BOT), who took home the Diamond League title due to better placing throughout the season.
The newly crowned Olympic champ, Sanya (USA) gets her second Diamond League win, at 49.89 seconds, moving her into 2nd in the Diamond League.
Richards-Ross won her first individual Olympic gold medal in the Women’s 400m. She won with a time of 49.55 seconds and her teammate DeeDee Trotter took 3rd.
Go behind-the-scenes with Sanya Richards-Ross as she prepares for the 2012 Olympics in London.
Sanya Richards-Ross (USA) wins the women’s 400m in 49.39 at the 2012 Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field. (Kirby Lee/Image of Sport-US PRESSWIRE) 400m runner’s indoor exploits suggests she’s on the right track By Phil Minshull, Special to Universal Sports Just over a week ago, Sanya Richards-Ross celebrated her 27th birthday by becoming the first woman […]
Richards-Ross (USA) gets the win in the Women’s 400m, beating World Champ Amantle Montsho (BOT) by .23 seconds.
August 6, 2011: Sanya Richards-Ross of the U.S. gets her first Diamond League victory of the season in the 400m in London.
Christian Taylor of the U.S. jumps to win the men’s triple jump at the Stockholm Diamond League in Stockholm August 17, 2012. (REUTERS/Christine Olsson/Scanpix) STOCKHOLM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Olympic women’s 400 meters champion Sanya Richards-Ross won her first race since the London Games and Yuliya Zaripov clocked the year’s fastest time in the women’s […]
Sanya Richards-Ross (USA), middle, competes in the women’s 200m heats during the 2012 London Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports) By Alison Wildey LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Olympic 400 meters champion Sanya Richards-Ross shook off the effects of a night celebrating her gold win to run the fastest time in the […]
Sanya Richards-Ross (USA), right, wins the women’s 400m final during the 2012 London Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium. (Leo Mason-USA TODAY Sports) By Alison Wildey LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Sanya Richards-Ross breathed a sigh of relief when she won the women’s Olympic 400 meters title at the third time of asking. The American had […]
Sanya Richards-Ross (C) finishes in the women’s 200 meters qualifying at the U.S. Olympic athletics trials in Eugene, Oregon June 28, 2012. (REUTERS/Steve Dipaola) By Gene Cherry EUGENE, Oregon, June 29 (Reuters) – Sanya Richards-Ross sprinted to the year’s second fastest time as she won her women’s 200 meters semi-final at the U.S. Olympic athletics […]
In the Women’s 400 meters, Sanya Richards-Ross, the Bronze medalist from Beijing, will lead the Americans, Dee Dee Trotter and Francena McCrory, in London.
Sanya Richards-Ross (R) of the United States celebrates winning the women’s 400m race at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League track meet in Eugene, Oregon, June 2, 2012. (REUTERS/Steve Dipaola) By Gene Cherry EUGENE, Oregon, June 21 (Reuters) – Since she was a youngster, former world champion Sanya Richards-Ross has dreamed of being on the Olympic […]
Ethiopia’s Mohammed Aman (C) celebrates as he won the men’s 800m race in front of David Rudisha of Kenya (R) during the Weltklasse Diamond League meeting in Zurich, August 30, 2012. (REUTERS/Ruben Sprich) By Brian Homewood ZURICH, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Olympic 800 meters champion David Rudisha suffered a shock defeat at the Weltklasse diamond […]
Francena McCorory (USA), left, takes the hand off from Allyson Felix (USA) in the women’s 4x400m relay final during the 2012 London Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports) By Nick Mulvenney LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Allyson Felix claimed her third gold medal of the Games as the United States outclassed their […]
Allyson Felix (USA) competes in the women’s 200m final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at Greenwich Park. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports) By Alison Wildey LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) – It was third time lucky for American Allyson Felix who won Olympic 200 meters gold on Wednesday after taking silver at the previous two Games. […]
It was a 12-day mini-Olympics, a stretch ending July 1 that delighted us with the overlapping U.S. trials for track and field, swimming and gymnastics. Out of these 12 days of Christmas-in-summer came the rosters for perhaps the three most high-profile sports at the Games. We were served heaping helpings of high-end performance, along with […]
Galen Rupp (R) and Bernard Lagat finish in the men’s 5,000 meters final at the U.S. Olympic athletics trials in Eugene, Oregon June 28, 2012. (REUTERS/Steve Dipaola) By Gene Cherry EUGENE, Oregon, June 28 (Reuters) – Galen Rupp ran down favorite Bernard Lagat to win a spine-tingling 5,000 meters and secure the first men’s long […]
Justin Gatlin (R) celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the men’s 100 meter final ahead of Tyson Gay (L) and Michael Rodgers at the U.S. Olympic athletics trials in Eugene, Oregon, June 24, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson) By Gene Cherry EUGENE, Oregon, June 24 (Reuters) – Justin Gatlin is back. So is Tyson […]
They are staging a sequel of sorts to “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Call it “Fast Times at High-flying Eugene, Ore.” Instead of Spicolo and Stacy and Rat, characters in the stoner movie that toasts its 30-year anniversary this year, the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials features Tyson and Justin and Carmelita and […]
FILE – This June 2, 2012 file photo shows United States’ Justin Gatlin winning the 100-meter event at the Prefontaine Classic athletics meet in Eugene, Ore. Now 30 and eight years removed from his last Olympic trials, Gatlin’s all business as he steps to the line this weekend. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) By Gene […]
Bernard Lagat, right, congratulates David Rudisha, of Kenya, after he won the men’s 800 meter race at the Adidas Grand Prix track and field meet on Randall’s Island, Saturday, June 9, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) By Larry Fine NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) – Yohan Blake and fellow Jamaican Olympic champion Shelly-Ann […]
Liu Xiang (C) of China leads David Oliver (L) and Jason Richardson of the United States over the last hurdle in the men’s 110m hurdles at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League track meet in Eugene, Oregon June 2, 2012. (REUTERS/Steve Dipaola) By Gene Cherry EUGENE, Oregon, June 2 (Reuters) – Liu Xiang sent an ominous […]
Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele celebrates after winning the men’s 10.000m during the Diamond League athletics meeting in Brussels on September 16, 2011. (JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images) By Gene Cherry EUGENE, Oregon (June 1) – One has built a track on the outskirts of his country’s capital to aid his recovery from injury, the other trained in the […]
Nery Brenes (L) of Costa Rica, LaShawn Merritt (C) of the U.S. and Oscar Pistorius of South Africa compete during men’s 400 meters event at the Golden Spike International track and field meeting in Ostrava May 25, 2012. (REUTERS/Petr Josek) By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE, May 25 (Reuters) – Usain Bolt labored to victory in the […]
By Kayon Rayor KINGSTON, May 5 (Reuters) – Jamaican Olympic champion Usain Bolt held his nerve after two false starts by competitors and powered to the year’s fastest 100 metres at the Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday. The 100 and 200 world record holder clocked a dazzling 9.82 seconds in his first individual race of […]
Asafa Powell of Jamaica holds his Athlete of the Meet trophy at the US Open Track and Field meet at Madison Square Garden in New York, January 28, 2012. (REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine) By Kayon Raynor KINGSTON, May 3 (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt could have an unexpected challenger when the Jamaican world record holder […]
June 4, 2011: Amantle Montsho of Botswana wins the women’s 400m over Americans Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards-Ross at the Prefontaine Classic.
July 10, 2011: Amantle Montsho runs away with the women’s 400m, as American Sanya Richards-Ross settles for fourth.
Sept. 3, 2011: Sanya Richards-Ross and Allyson Felix lead the United States in a dominant effort for gold in the women’s 4x400m relay final.
June 30, 2011: Amantle Montsho of Botswana beats Sanya Richards-Ross in the 400m at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne.
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