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'''Theresa ("Tessa") Ione Sanderson''' <small>[[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]</small> (born 14 March 1956) is a former [[United Kingdom|British]] [[javelin throw|javelin]] thrower and [[heptathlon|heptathlete]] who competed in the javelin competition in every one of the six Olympics from 1976–1996 winning the Gold medal in 1984. She is the second [[Athletics_at_the_Summer_Olympics|Track & Field]] athlete, after [[Lia Manoliu]] (discus), to compete at [[List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games|six Olympics]]. |
'''Theresa ("Tessa'Sker der 1.j?") Ione Sanderson''' <small>[[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]</small> (born 14 March 1956) is a former [[United Kingdom|British]] [[javelin throw|javelin]] thrower and [[heptathlon|heptathlete]] who competed in the javelin competition in every one of the six Olympics from 1976–1996 winning the Gold medal in 1984. She is the second [[Athletics_at_the_Summer_Olympics|Track & Field]] athlete, after [[Lia Manoliu]] (discus), to compete at [[List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games|six Olympics]]. |
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Theresa ("Tessa'Sker der 1.j?") Ione Sanderson CBE (born 14 March 1956) is a former British javelin thrower and heptathlete who competed in the javelin competition in every one of the six Olympics from 1976–1996 winning the Gold medal in 1984. She is the second Track & Field athlete, after Lia Manoliu (discus), to compete at six Olympics. [1]
Sanderson was born in St Elizabeth, Jamaica of Ghanaian ancestry, she later emigrated to Wolverhampton, England. She was the UK's leading javelin thrower from the mid-1970s, winning silver in the 1978 European championships and gold in the Commonwealth Games three times (1978, 1986, 1990), but was eclipsed during the 1980s by the up-and-coming Fatima Whitbread, with whom she shared a long standing rivalry.
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, and 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, and to Commander (CBE) in the 2004 New Year's Honours for her services to Sport England.
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. She is currently helping to run an academy in Newham, London that finds and helps train athletes to represent Britain in the 2012 Olympics. In September 2009 Tessa registered her own Charity sports academy carrying on her work alongside the now established Newham Sports Acadermy which created four years ago.
The name of the Charity is The Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy the charity is helping Tessa to work on a wider bases to help other youngsters who are disabled and non disabled achieve their goals and creating a pathway and more opportunities not just in Newham but the wider areas of London and with a vision of a national roll out.
In April 2009 Tessa again because of her work in the community made history again by organising the first 10K road run to run through the Olympic Park offering the community and other visitors to Newham the Host Borough of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games a fantastic birds eye view of what will be the new Olympic 2012 athletics stadium. The Newham Classic 10K was so successful that this now takes place annually and has led to other active running events for anyone such as the City of London West Ham Park Runs which takes place most Sunday mornings in West Ham Park in the East End of London.
Tessa has now been appointed as a Board member of the newly formed Olympic Park Legacy Company chaired by Baroness Margaret Ford to oversee and help with the formation of the Olympic Park for the Newham community and people living in the East End of London
On 1st May 2010, Tessa married to Densign White, former Olympic Judo player at St. Paul Cathedral in London.[2]
Tessa now organised and was associated with the Redbridge 10k on 24th July 2011, which was the first ever run in the borough of Redbridge.
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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Representing United Kingdom and England | ||||
1974 | British Commonwealth Games | Christchurch, New Zealand | 5th | 48.54 m |
1978 | Commonwealth Games | Edmonton, Canada | 1st | 61.34 m |
European Championships | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 2nd | 62.40 m | |
1980 | Olympic Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 19th | 48.76 m |
1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 4th | 64.76 m |
1984 | Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United States | 1st | 69.56 m |
1986 | Commonwealth Games | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1st | 69.80 m |
1987 | World Championships | Rome, Italy | 4th | 67.54 m |
1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 21st | 56.70 m |
1990 | Commonwealth Games | Auckland, New Zealand | 1st | 65.72 m |
European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 12th | 57.56 m | |
1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 4th | 63.58 m |
1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 14th | 58.86 m |
See also
References
External links
- Tessa Sanderson's website
- The Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy
- sporting heroes photos
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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- Olympic athletes of Great Britain
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- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom
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