However her progress after 2007 was repeatedly hampered by injuries and after 2007 she did not feature again at the highest level of international individual competition, with all of her subsequent success being in the relay squads.

[3] Sanders won a bronze medal in the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships in Riga at 400 m hurdles.

As of July 2024, this is the greatest winning margin for the women's 400 metres at these championships since 1990 and the only time since 1990 that this event has been won by more than two seconds.

In 2007, she took gold in the 400 m competition in the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, with a personal best and national record of 50.02 seconds.

During the final day of the championships on 2 September, Sanders anchored the British 4 × 400 m team to a bronze medal.

[4] In December 2011, Sanders was one of 12 British female sporting celebrities who posed for Clara Maidment a charity calendar in aid of Wellbeing of Women.