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
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