Tessa Sanderson CBE
Tessa Sanderson is an Olympic Gold Medalist, an ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and head of the Newham Sports Academy, which she founded to find and train grassroots talented youngsters in Olympic sports. A former Vice-Chairman of Sport England, she has won Sports Personality of the Year and Athlete of the Year three times and presented sport on various international television channels. Tessa was awarded the CBE in 2004.