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
Malcolm Spence (Jamaican athlete) late 1950s, among the first international athletes to come to the USA for athletics. He is the author of "The Lives and Times of Mal and Mel: Three Times Jamaican Olympians" published in 2011. Malcolm Spence (Jamaican athlete) Malcolm A. E. "Mal" Spence (2 January 1936 – 30 October 2017) was a Jamaican athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. His twin brother Melville also competed in track and field. Malcolm died five years and two days after his brother. Spence competed for the British West Indies in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where he won