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
Sanderson Field airport today), christened "Sanderson Field" and the facilities improved. The larger of two runways (north-south; designated 17-35) was closed, and runway 5-23 (east-west) was expanded and kept open. The closed runway has occasionally been used as a drag strip. In late 1993, a chainlink security fence was added to the perimeter of the airport and in 1994 five new hangars were built at the southeast corner. A large number of buildings today are remnants of the World War II era. Sanderson Field covers an area of at an elevation of 273 feet (83 m) above mean sea level. It has