British African-Caribbean people In general, Scott's achievements are only thinly documented, and she is largely unknown to the British public and historians of sport. Jamaican-born Tessa Sanderson became the first British African-Caribbean woman to win Olympic gold, receiving the medal for her javelin performance in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Denise Lewis, of Jamaican heritage, won heptathlon gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, a games where 13 of Britain's 18 track and field representatives had Afro-Caribbean roots. Four years later in the Athens Olympics, Kelly Holmes, the daughter of a Jamaican-born car mechanic, achieved the rare feat of taking gold in both the
André Theuriet (athlete) André Theuriet (athlete) André Armand Godefroy Theuriet (30 March 1887 – 21 March 1965) was a French athlete and grandson of the novelist André Theuriet. He competed nationally in a wide range of sports, and internationally in swimming and rugby. In swimming he failed to reach the final of the 1500 m freestyle event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. In rugby he played five international matches as a scrum-half between 1909 and 1913. Nationally Theuriet competed in motorcycling, shooting, walking, boxing, football, cycling, running, field hockey and water polo. He won the national university titles in running, 5000 m and