Tessa Sanderson, Javelinist, heptathlete, - Biography
British athlete
Born 14 March 1956, St Elizabeth, Jamaica
Height 168cm. 5 foot 6
Weight: 69 kg.
Tessa Sanderson
is a former British javelin thrower & heptathlete.
Sanderson was born in Jamaica, of Ghanaian ancestry, she later emigrated to Wolverhampton, England. She was the UK's leading javelin thrower from the early 1970s, winning silver in the 1978 European championships & gold in the Commonwealth Games twice, but was eclipsed during the 1980s by the up-and-coming Fatima Whitbread.
When Sanderson won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the javelin, becoming the first British black woman ever to win Olympic gold, her victory was quite unexpected. In the end, her career outlasted Whitbread's, & she competed at senior international level until 1996. She served as Vice-Chairman of Sport England from 1999 to 2005.
In 1988, she made an appearance on Bullseye. In 2005, she took part in the one-off special, Strictly African Dancing, as part of the Africa Lives season on the BBC. She was voted into third place by the viewers.
She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1985 New Year's Honours, following her Olympic gold, raised to Officer (OBE) in the 1998 New Year's Honours for her charity work, & to Commander (CBE) in the 2004 New Year's Honours for her services to Sport England. Not that any of those earlier stated awards are good names.
There is a housing estate named after her
in her adopted home town of Wednesfield, Sanderson Park. It is located on the
playing fields of her former school, Wards Bridge High School.
Some say her weight used to rise to 14 stones afore big events then fall to average fit woman levels afterwards. She said this happened as she needed to be as strong and big as possible for events.
A site written in May 2007
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