泰莎·桑德森

泰莎·桑德森

泰莎·桑德森,女,黑種人,英國田徑運動員,多次參加奧運會、世界盃等國際大型賽事,並取得了不錯的戰績。英國女王曾授予其爵士稱號,以表彰她在體育方面的成就。

基本介紹

  • 中文名:泰莎·桑德森
  • 外文名:Tessa Sanderson
  • 國籍:英國
  • 運動項目:標槍
  • 主要獎項:1984年奧運標槍金牌獲得者
  • 重要事件:3次大英國協金牌得主
基本信息,英文介紹,

基本信息

二等勳爵泰莎·桑德森: Tessa Sanderson
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泰薩總共參加了六屆奧運會(參加奧運會最多的運動員),並且在1984年奧運會標槍比賽中拿到了該項目的金牌。泰薩在其職業生涯中獲得了無數的金牌,這其中包括3次大英國協金牌,1990你那古巴世界盃的冠軍。1984年奧運會是他第五次參加奧運會,但是他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大英國協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。為了表彰她在這一運動中的傑出貢獻,2004年三月她被英國女王授予英帝國司令爵士稱號。

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.

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