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
Albert Hill (athlete) the middle distance double by winning the 1500 m as well, thus completing a "double" not replicated by a British athlete until Kelly Holmes at the 2004 Olympics. Helped by his compatriot, Philip Baker (who would receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959), he won comfortably, with Baker in second in a time of 4:01.8. Hill also competed in the 3000 m team race event, in which the British team finished second, earning Hill's third Olympic medal. Hill won the 1921 AAA mile championship in a British record of 4:13.8, this was 1.2 seconds outside the world record and the