1. Fatima Whitbread, is a British retired javelin thrower.
30 Facts About Fatima Whitbread
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Fatima Whitbread is a two-time Olympic medallist, winning bronze at the 1984 Summer Olympics and silver at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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Fatima Whitbread won the same medals, respectively, in the Commonwealth Games of 1982 and 1986.
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Fatima Whitbread won the 1977 English Schools' Athletics Championships intermediate title, and was selected for the 1978 Commonwealth Games, where she finished sixth.
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Fatima Whitbread was named the Sports Writers' Association Sportswoman of the Year in 1986 and 1987.
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Fatima Whitbread was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 Birthday Honours, for services to athletics.
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Fatima Whitbread was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1987 and received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award in 2023 in recognition of her triumph over the adversity of her childhood, and her continued work on behalf of other children in care environments.
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In later years, Fatima Whitbread has appeared on several television programmes, including I'm a Celebrity.
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Fatima Whitbread Vedad was born on 3 March 1961 in Stoke Newington, London, to an unmarried Turkish Cypriot mother and Greek Cypriot father.
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Fatima Whitbread asked her to wait until the coach arrived.
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Fatima Whitbread spent her teenage years in Chadwell St Mary, Essex, where she attended the Torells School in nearby Grays.
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Fatima Whitbread led throughout the final until Tiina Lillak bettered her mark with her last throw of the contest.
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Fatima Whitbread sat down crying on the field after the result for around 30 minutes.
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Fatima Whitbread was the first British athlete to set a world record in a throwing event.
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Fatima Whitbread was voted winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 1987.
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Fatima Whitbread is succeeding in bringing personality to her event in the same way that Willie Banks did to the triple jump.
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Fatima Whitbread won the silver medal behind Felke, with a throw that, although her best of the season, was some four metres less than her rival.
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In 1985, Fatima Whitbread often participated in international events but Sanderson took part in only one in the season ending in June 1985.
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Fatima Whitbread perfected the turning on to the shaft while Sanderson often sagged through the delivery.
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Fatima Whitbread wrote in her 2012 autobiography that she began a personal relationship with Andy Norman shortly after his divorce in 1986.
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Fatima Whitbread was runner-up to Nigel Mansell in the 1986 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards, and won the title the following year.
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Fatima Whitbread was named the Sports Writers' Association Sportswoman of the Year in 1986 and 1987.
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Fatima Whitbread was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 Birthday Honours, for services to athletics.
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Fatima Whitbread received the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award, for "outstanding achievement in the face of adversity".
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Fatima Whitbread has been a guest on television programmes including A Question of Sport, The Little and Large Show and The Wright Stuff.
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Fatima Whitbread spoke about her unhappiness at how Ben Johnson had been treated after being found doping with steroids.
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Fatima Whitbread was a featured "masked celebrity" on Celebrity Wrestling in 2005, and lost her bout against Victoria Silvstedt.
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In November 2011, Fatima Whitbread took part in the ITV show I'm a Celebrity.
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Later that year, the stand-alone documentary Fatima Whitbread: Growing Up in Care featured Whitbread's reflections on her own troubled childhood, and her conversations with others who had experienced serious problems from their parent and problems with the UK care system.
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The table shows Fatima Whitbread's performances representing Great Britain and England in international competitions.