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

She regarded in each Summer

Olympics from 1976 to 1996, triumphing the gold medal in the javelin at the 1984 Olympics.
She turned into the first Black British woman to win an Olympic gold medal, and the second
track and field athlete to compete at six Olympics. Sanderson received gold medals at three
Commonwealth Games and at the 1992 IAAF World Cup. She set five Commonwealth
information and ten British country wide information inside the javelin, as well as information at
junior and masters tiers. Sanderson had a competition with fellow Briton Fatima Whitbread, who
took the bronze inside the 1984 Olympics. Sanderson turned into a sports activities reporter for
Sky News when it began broadcasting in 1989. She become vice-chair of Sport England from
1999 to 2005, and later established the Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy, which
ambitions to inspire young people and those with disabilities to take up sport. She became a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004