Tessa Sanderson (born 1956) is a retired British javelin thrower.

She seemed in each Summer

Olympics from 1976 to 1996, winning the gold medal inside the javelin at the 1984 Olympics.
She turned into the first Black British girl to win an Olympic gold medal, and the second one
tune and discipline athlete to compete at six Olympics. Sanderson won gold medals at 3
Commonwealth Games and at the 1992 IAAF World Cup. She set five Commonwealth statistics
and ten British countrywide statistics inside the javelin, in addition to data at junior and masters
stages. Sanderson had a competition with fellow Briton Fatima Whitbread, who took the bronze
in the 1984 Olympics. Sanderson became a sports activities reporter for Sky News whilst it
started broadcasting in 1989. She turned into vice-chair of Sport England from 1999 to 2005, and
later established the Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy, which targets to inspire younger
human beings and people with disabilities to soak up sport. She have become a Commander of
the Order of the British Empire in 2004