Donald Sanford (athlete)

Donald Eugene Blair-Sanford (Hebrew: דונלד יוג'ין בלייר-סנפורד, born February 5, 1987) is an American-Israeli Olympic sprinter, who specialises in the 400 metre dash.

[4] He won the 400m dash at the California Interscholastic Federation Division III Championships, and was a member of the National Honor Society.

[9][10] He finished fifth in a time of 45.71 seconds, in a race won by double-amputee South African Oscar Pistorius, and did not make it out of the qualifying rounds.

[13] At the 2013 Maccabiah Games, Sanford broke the Israeli record and won the gold medal in the 400 meter race with a time of 45.65, defeating Australian Olympic finalist Steven Solomon.

[14] In 2014, Sanford won the bronze medal in the 400 metres sprint at the European Athletic Championships held in Zurich on August 15, 2014, with a new Israeli record of 45.27 seconds.

[20] Sanford and his wife, Israeli native Danielle Dekel-Sanford, married in 2008, and live in Kibbutz Ein Shemer about an hour north of Tel Aviv with their children, Amerie Ann and Rylee.

Donald Sanford