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

She showed up in each Summer

Olympics from 1976 to 1996, winning the gold award in the spear at the 1984 Olympics. She was the
principal Black British lady to win an Olympic gold award, 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 contention 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 intends to empower
youthful endlessly individuals with handicaps to take up sport. She turned into a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire in 2004