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Fatima Whitbread, MBE ( née Vedad; 3 March 1961) is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of 77.44 m ( 254 ft ⁄4 in) in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became the first British athlete to set a world record in a throwing event.
Dec 19, 2023 · From abandoned baby to world record holder, Fatima Whitbread's story is one of triumphing over adversity.
Whitbread became European Junior Champion in 1979 and was chosen for the Moscow Olympics whilst still a teenager. After winning a bronze medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games she broke through into the top echelon of throwers at the 1983 World Championships.
Fatima Whitbread is a British former javelin thrower who is a two-time Olympic medalist. A former world champion and world record holder, she won the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart and the 1987 World Championships in Rome.
Dec 19, 2023 · Former javelin world champion Fatima Whitbread has been honoured with the Helen Rollason Award at Sports Personality of the Year 2023. Whitbread, now 62, spent the first 14 years of her life in...
Born in London to Cypriot parents, Fatima Whitbread endured a disturbed childhood after being abandoned by her mother as a baby and spent her first 14 years in a variety of care homes.
Dec 20, 2023 · Fatima Whitbread: 'A lot of our young care leavers will be sitting alone' this Christmas. Fatima Whitbread spent the first 14 years of her life in children's homes after being abandoned as a baby.
By now Whitbread was one of the British public’s favourite sporting successes, not only due to her world record-breaking and gold medal-winning habit but her ‘Whitbread wiggle’...
Athlete, Olympian, Record Breaker. Fatima Whitbread’s national titles include WAAA Junior Champion (U17) and 6 time WAAA Champion, along with European Junior Champion, medalling at successive Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games between 1982 and 1988 and breaking the women’s javelin world record in 1986.
1 x Olympic Games Silver medallist. 1 x World Championships Silver medallist. 1 x Olympic Games Bronze medallist. More Honours. Results. Honours. RESULTS IN: Javelin Throw (old) Date.
