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
Bradley Thomas (athlete) Long Jump F44 event. In 2006 Thomas was inducted into the Tasmanian Sporting Hall of Fame in recognition of his achievements in track and field. Bradley Thomas (athlete) Bradley James Thomas, OAM (born 1 April 1967) is an Australian Paralympic athlete who won four medals at three Paralympic Games from 1988 to 1996. Thomas was born in Hobart. He won a silver medal in the Men's Pentathlon A4A9 event at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics. He competed without winning any medals at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, He won a gold medal in the Men's 4x100 m