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
Mikhail Kostin (athlete) Mikhail Kostin (athlete) Mikhail Kostin (born 10 May 1959) is a Belarusian male former track and field athlete who competed in the shot put, mainly for the Soviet Union. He won the inaugural shot put title at the Belarusian national chsmpionships in 1992. He made one international appearance for his native country, winning the 1993 European Cup title in the Second League. While he never competed at a major international event, he achieved distances that ranked him very highly. He threw beyond twenty metres every season he competed in from 1984 to 1994. His best , achieved in 1986 ranked