Tessa Sanderson of Great Britain with a throw of 69.56 meters (228 feet, 2 1/2 inches).
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Tessa won 1 Olympic gold medal, in javelin throw, at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Tessa Sanderson (GBR)
Tessa Sanderson of Great Britain won a gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Tessa won 1 Olympic medal, a gold in javelin throw, at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Tessa Sanderson of Great Britain with a throw of 69.56 meters (228 feet, 2 1/2 inches).
Tessa Sanderson
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The second most famous British male javelin thrower is almost certainly David Ottley of Telford who won the silver medal at the 1984 LA Olympic Games with a throw of 85.74m. In those same games Britain's Tessa Sanderson won the women's event with Fatima Whitbread of Britain winning Bronze.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, no New Zealander has won a gold medal in javelin.
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Osleidys Menéndez of Cuba won the gold medal and set the Olympic record in women's javelin at the 2004 Games in Athens.
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