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  Fatima Whitbread
Fatima Whitbread clearly established herself as one of the world's best javelin throwers in 1983, when she finished second to Tina Lillak (Finland) at the inaugural World Championships.
Whitbread and Sanderson did not meet in the early part of the 1984 season, during which Fatima set a new personal best of 71.86m on 29 April.
Whitbread regained third place from Laaksalo with her fifth round throw of 67.14m to win the bronze medal behind Sanderson and Lillak.
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 Fatima Whitbread
Abandoned as a baby, Fatima Whitbread spent an unhappy childhood raised in children's' homes until she came under the tutelage of Margaret Whitbread, who, with her husband John, formally adopted Fatima when she was 14.
At the time, Margaret Whitbread, who as Margaret Callender had come 5th in the javelin at the 1958 Commonwealth Games, was the British national javelin coach, which provided Fatima with the ideal environment to develop into a javelin champion.
Fatima made a significant breakthrough in 1983, defeating Sanderson for the first time on 28 May, and improving her personal best to 69.54m on 3 July.
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 Fatima Whitbread -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fatima Whitbread was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events) javelin thrower of Turkish Cypriot extraction who won the (additional info and facts about World Championship) World Championship in 1987.
She became well-known in the UK for her celebratory wiggle after achieving a long throw, and was voted winner of the prestigious (additional info and facts about BBC Sports Personality of the Year) BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 1987.
Whitbread had previously won the silver medal at the inaugural (additional info and facts about World Championships) World Championships in 1983.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Fatima
Whitbread, Fatima (1961-), British javelin thrower who was World and European Champion.
Born Fatima Vedad in Stoke Newington, London, she was...
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 Fatima Whitbread - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Fatima Whitbread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fatima Whitbread was a British javelin thrower of Turkish Cypriot extraction who won the World Championship in 1987.
She became well-known in the UK for her celebratory wiggle after achieving a long throw, and was voted winner of the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 1987.
Whitbread had previously won the silver medal at the inaugural World Championships in 1983.
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 Fatima Whitbread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fatima spent the first thirteen years of her life in children's homes until the Whitbread family adopted her.
Margaret Whitbread was the National Javelin Coach and discovered that her daughter had a raw talent and flair to become a javelin thrower.
1986 was the pinnacle of her career, when Fatima set a World Record in the qualifying rounds of the European Championships in Stuttgart, with a throw of 77.44 meters; she then came back to win the final with a throw of 76.32 meters, which was farther than any other women had ever achieved.
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 Whitbread, Fatima - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Whitbread, Fatima
Traditionally considered too short at 1.36 m/4.46 ft to excel at the javelin, Whitbread secured an Olympic bronze in 1984 and in 1985 became the first woman to throw a javelin over 76 m/249 ft. She set a world record of over 77 m/253 ft the following year.
She took the world championship title in Rome in 1987 and the Olympic silver medal in 1988.
Whitbread was adopted by her physical education teacher and trainer, former British international javelin thrower Margaret Whitbread, having been abandoned by her parents as a baby and brought up in a children's home in east London.
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 Fatima Whitbread
Fatima is now President of Asics Chafford Hundred Athletic Club, a club formed for the elite British athletes to make themselves available for promotional, advertising and endorsement packages.
In May 1997 Fatima married Andrew Norman and in February 1998 gave birth to a son, Ryan, in Pretoria, South Africa.
In 2000 she was the driving force to introduce an EAA/IAAF programme of meetings, which provide competition for national teams whose athletes have not reached the level of performance necessary to compete in the Golden League.
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Whitbread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Whitbread prize judges yesterday created what was predicted as a "huge" new bestseller when they singled out a story on an autistic teenager as their award for...
It was also a triumph over her great British rival Fatima Whitbread, who was threatening to steal her crown as the dominant force in British javelin throwing.
Whitbread gave up 4p at 715¾p, despite indications that Alan Parker, chief executive-designate, is prepared to release up to £200 million of capital tied up...
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 BBC - Essex Features - Taking Care - Fatima Whitbread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Essex sporting heroine Fatima Whitbread talks about her difficult childhood before finding happiness with a new family and javelin success.
Abandoned as a baby in a London flat, after three months in hospital Fatima was made a ward of court and spent the next 14 years in children's homes.
I realised there was quite a big difference between my friends that had support from their parents and us children who were in homes who had to survive it on their own as it were.
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 Whitbread Literary Award - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Whitbread Literary Award
Annual prize of £25,000 open to writers in the UK and Ireland.
The award, which is administered by the Booksellers Association, was founded in 1971 by Whitbread, a brewery.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 BBC Sport | In Depth | World Athletics Championship
Javelin is the unofficial national sport of Finland, and with Tiina Lillak hailing from Helsinki the stage seemed set for her to take gold at the inaugural World Championships.
Whitbread stood on the running track, barely able to watch, hand on forehead.
But there was a happy ending for Fatima - four years later she won gold in Rome.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/static/in_depth/athletics/2001/world_athletics/javelin.stm   (135 words)

  
 Fatima Whitbread, Jonathan Edwards, Norman Wisdom, Richard Dimbleby - Copthorne Parish, West Sussex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When Fatima Whitbread wanted to marry sports promoter Andrew Norman, between them they had so many international sporting guests they wished to invite, that being close to an international airport made sense.
When Fatima discovered that as she did not live in Copthorne, she would not be able to marry in the pretty church, she determined to do something about it.
Discovering that it was possible, by attending the church, and getting on the congregation electoral roll, she would be eligible to marry in the church, she started attending.
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 BBC News | UK | Fatima joke proves costly
Former Olympic athlete Fatima Whitbread has accepted a public apology and undisclosed libel damages over "tasteless and offensive" comments made on the BBC comedy quiz They Think It's All Over.
He said the statement was completely false and "tended to suggest that during her career, Ms Whitbread had unnaturally high levels of testosterone in her blood".
Mr Atkins said: "The parties have agreed to an amicable settlement of this libel action on the basis that the defendant agrees not to re-publish the offending allegations and to pay suitable damages to Fatima Whitbread as well as the legal costs she has incurred.
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 Observer | Triumph and despair: Fatima Whitbread
The coach was Margaret Whitbread, and when she arrived she recognised me and said, 'Oh no, not you!
Fatima Whitbread was born in London in 1961 and began throwing the javelin aged 11.
Coached by her mother Margaret Whitbread, she competed in three Olympics, winning bronze at the 1984 Los Angeles games.
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 Whitbread, Fatima -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Whitbread was abandoned in an apartment as a baby and raised in children's homes until she was 14.
There was some parental contact but it was unsatisfactory and she was also sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend.
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 Sunday Mirror (London, England): NOW FATIMA'S A SLIMLINE MUM; New baby Ryan is ultimate prize for Olympic ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
NOW FATIMA'S A SLIMLINE MUM; New baby Ryan is ultimate prize for Olympic champ.(Features)
FATIMA Whitbread looks lovingly at the tiny, golden-haired child in her arms.
But if 37-year-old Fatima is besotted with her eight-week-old son, it is no more than her green-eyed baby Ryan is with her.
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 FATIMA THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
This is the sometimes shocking, often touching story of Fatima Whitbread's eventful life.
More than a sports autobiography, more than the saga of an abused child, it reveals the terrible personal odds which she, an Olympian, world javelin champion, and the most famous
More than a sports autobiography, more than the saga of an abused child, it reveals the terrible personal odds which she, an Olympian, world javelin champion, and the most famous sportswoman in Britain, has had to overcome.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Whitbread Fatima
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Whitbread Fatima
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 Tessa Sanderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sanderson had been the UK's leading javelin thrower since the early 1970s, winning silver in the 1978 European championships and gold in the Commonwealth Games twice, but was eclipsed during the 1980s by the up-and-coming Fatima Whitbread.
When Sanderson won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the javelin, becoming the first British fl woman ever to win Olympic gold, her victory was quite unexpected.
In the end, her career outlasted Whitbread's, and she competed at senior international level until 1996.
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 Celebrity Birthday Horoscope for Fatima Whitbread
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You tend to be the practical sort: down to earth and concerned with material comfort and security.
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 ESPN.com - Where God shines his light   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
We struck the same pose when we found this Fatima Whitbread photo from 1987.
"Especially you" identifying the shy one who looked like an Asian version of former British javelin thrower Fatima Whitbread (if my editors at ESPN.com can find that photo, they are gods), "you cheeky, little monkey!"
Of course, none of them understood a word.
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 Fatima Whitbread
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