更新时间：2023-06-26 22:20
二等勋爵泰莎·桑德森： Tessa Sanderson
泰萨总共参加了六届奥运会(参加奥运会最多的运动员)，并且在1984年奥运会标枪比赛中拿到了该项目的金牌。泰萨在其职业生涯中获得了无数的金牌，这其中包括3次英联邦金牌，1990你那古巴世界杯的冠军。1984年奥运会是他第五次参加奥运会，但是他却取得了令人难以置信的第四名。1997年泰萨选择了从竞争激烈的田坛退役，至今为止泰萨还独享英联邦国家在奥运会上夺得女子田径投掷类项目金牌的女运动员。为了表彰她在这一运动中的杰出贡献，2004年三月她被英国女王授予英帝国司令爵士称号。
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.