Tessa Sanderson gold in this event, her victory was quite unexpected. In the end, her career outlasted Whitbread's, and she competed at senior international level until 1996. Her best performance in the javelin was set in Edinburgh on 26 March 1983. Sanderson served as Vice-Chairman of Sport England from 1999 to 2005. She ran an academy in Newham, London that helped to find and train athletes to represent Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics. In September 2009 Sanderson registered her own charity sports academy carrying on her work alongside the established Newham Sports Academy. The name of the charity is the Tessa
Tessa Sanderson London. Sanderson organised and was associated with the Redbridge 10k on 24 July 2011, which was the first ever run in the Borough of Redbridge. In 1984, Sanderson made an appearance on "Bullseye". Starting in the late 80s she starred in a number of fitness videos alongside Derrick Evans. In the 1990s she worked as a sports reporter for Sky News, and appeared alongside Cilla Black as a co-host on ITV's "Surprise Surprise". 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