Tessa Sanderson (conceived 1956) is a resigned British lance hurler.

She showed up in each Summer

Olympics from 1976 to 1996, winning the gold decoration in the spear at the 1984 Olympics. She was
the primary Black British lady to win an Olympic gold decoration, and the subsequent olympic style
sports competitor to contend at six Olympics. Sanderson won gold decorations at three Commonwealth
Games and at the 1992 IAAF World Cup. She set five Commonwealth standards and ten British public
records in the spear, as well as records at junior and experts levels. Sanderson had a competition with
individual Briton Fatima Whitbread, who took the bronze in the 1984 Olympics. Sanderson was a games
columnist for Sky News when it started telecom in 1989. She was bad habit seat of Sport England from
1999 to 2005, and later settled the Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy, which expects to
energize youthful endlessly individuals with inabilities to take up sport. She turned into a Commander of
the Order of the British Empire in 2004