泰莎·桑德森 - 個人簡介

泰莎·桑德森： Tessa Sanderson

國籍：英國

項目：標(biāo)槍

功名：二等勛爵

泰莎·桑德森 - 經(jīng)歷

泰薩總共參加了六屆奧運會(參加奧運會最多的運動員)，并且在1984年奧運會標(biāo)槍比賽中拿到了該項目的金牌。

泰薩在其職業(yè)生涯中獲得了無數(shù)的金牌，這其中包括3次英聯(lián)邦金牌，1990你那古巴世界杯的冠軍。

1984年奧運會是她第五次參加奧運會，但是她卻取得了令人難以置信的第四名。

1997年泰薩選擇了從競爭激烈的田壇退役，至今為止泰薩還獨享英聯(lián)邦國家在奧運會上奪得女子田徑投擲類項目金牌的女運動員。

泰莎·桑德森 - 英文介紹

Theresa ("Tessa") Ione Sanderson CBE (born March 14, 1956) is a former British javelinist and heptathlete.
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 early 1970s, winning silver in the 1978 European championships and gold in the Commonwealth Games twice, but was eclipsed during the 1980s by the up-and-coming Fatima Whitbread.

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.