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In March 2004 New Years Honours
list Tessa Sanderson was awarded the CBE by Her Majesty the Queen, in
recognition of her services to sport and Vic Chairman of Sport England the
leading strategic organisation for sport in England. Prior to the CBE she was
the recipient of an OBE in December 1997 for her work with various charities and
in 1985 was awarded the MBE for winning her Olympic Gold Medal for Great Britain
in Los Angeles. In October 2004 Tessa was awarded the Sunday Times Life Times
Achievement Award for her dedication to sport.
Tessa holds two Honorary
Fellowship Degree one from South Bank University in London in 2004, and prior to
this Wolverhampton Polytechnic. She also has an honorary Masters Degree from
Birmingham University. Tessa has competed in SIX Olympic games, which in itself
is a record, which resulted in winning a gold medal in the javelin event in
1984. Tessa has won many other major medals including three times Commonwealth
Gold and the last being a World Cup Gold in Cuba in 1990. In the 1992 Barcelona
Olympics and competing in her 5th Olympics she finished an incredible 4th place
in the final.
During her 26 years competing for
Great Britain Tessa was voted Sports Personality of the Year and Athlete of the
Year (3 times) by the Athletics Writers Association. In 1988 Tessa presented the
Sports News for 2 ½ years for Sky Television. Her media career involves
television presenting for BBC, ITV, Bloomberg, GMTV, where she covered the 1996
Olympics from Atlanta. Other media activities involve working with Talk Sport
Radio and other network radio stations in the UK.
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