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
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