Sandra FARMER-PATRICK

Sandr Farmer-Patrick was born in Jamaica and initially competed for that nation at the 1984 Olympics, placing eighth in the final of the 400 hurdles. She later married American 800 runner Dave Patrick and as Sandra Farmer-Patrick, ran the 400 hurdles for the United States in 1992 and 1996, winning a silver medal in 1992. She ran in college in the United States, attending the University of Arizona briefly, and then Cal State, Los Angeles, where she would be elected to the Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.

Almost exclusively an intermediate hurdler, Farmer-Patrick won titles in that event at the Grand Prix Final in 1989, 1991, 1993; the World Cup in 1989 and 1992, the 1990 Goodwill Games, and the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games. She also added silver medals at the 1991 World Championships and the 1987 Pan American Games. Farmer-Patrick was world ranked #1 in the 400 hurdles in 1989 and 1991-92, and ranked #1 in the United States from 1988-93. She ended her career shortly after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, due in part to a two-year ban she received after testing positive for testosterone at the 1996 US Olympic Trials, which caused her to be retrospectively disqualified from the Atlanta Games.