Fatima ; The Autobiography of Fatima Whitbread

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As well, she broke the javelin world record with a throw of 77.44 m in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Championships and qualified for the final of the 1987 World Championships in second place behind Felke. I spent the first 14 years of my life in children’s homes, I didn’t have any visits, I didn’t have any birthday cards or anything to indicate that there was anybody out there. a b c d e Henderson, Jason (2 March 2021). "Fatima Whitbread at 60". Athletics Weekly. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022 . Retrieved 7 May 2022.

In 1997, she married Andy Norman, the controversial athletics promoter, with whom she had a son, Ryan, a year later. (Norman had been implicated by the coroner in the 1994 suicide of Cliff Temple, a Sunday Times journalist who had been investigating Norman’s conduct as promotions officer of the British Athletics Federation.) After her traumatic childhood, she was determined that her son’s would be different. “I felt I would be a good mum,” she says. “I believed in myself. It was important for me to be able to prove that I could be a good mum and break the mould of what I’d been through.” She is a member of famous with the age 62 years old group. Fatima Whitbread Height, Weight & Measurements Whitbread with Ferne McCann on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2022. Photograph: Pete Dadds/Channel 4/PA Her success brought fame – and intrusion. The tabloids found her biological mother. The trauma resurfaced. “It forced me to have to tell my story. That was really the start of the demise in my athletic career, because it brought me to a physical and mental breakdown.” While training for the 1988 Olympics, she was also writing a book about her childhood, to try to get control of her story. “It was awful. I shouldn’t have gone to that Olympics, but I managed to pull on all my reserves and I came away with the silver medal.” Fatima Vedad is a retired British javelin thrower who is excellently known as Fatima Whitbread. She is well recognized for winning the event at the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart where she broke the world record with a throw of 77.44 meters in the qualifying round the previous day. She began throwing the javelin aged 11. She set a world record for the javelin throw in 1986, and the next year she won a gold medal at the World Championships. Fatima was named the Sports Writers’ Association Sportswoman of the Year in 1986 and 1987 and was named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1987. She also enjoyed considerable success in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul as she won the silver medal behind Petra Felke. Besides, she has also starred in several television programs, including “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” in 2011. In 2020, she starred in the TV series “Pilgrimage: Road to Istanbul”. Fatima Whitbread Famous Fora b "Cotton and Whitbread voted off Celebrity". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 3 December 2011. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022 . Retrieved 13 June 2022.

McFly duo set for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire special". Irish Independent. 19 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022 . Retrieved 13 June 2022. a b c d e "Fatima Whitbread". The Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022 . Retrieved 7 May 2022. she failed to qualify for the final. [12] At the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Whitbread took the bronze medal, throwing 58.86m ( 193ft 1 + 1⁄ 4in), which was 5.6m ( 18ft 4 + 1⁄ 4in) behind champion Sue Howland, from Australia. [10] [13] Whitbread won the silver medal behind Petra Felke (pictured in 1984) at the 1988 Summer Olympics. [14] I was abandoned as a baby, and some would say left to die, in a flat in London, and a neighbour heard that baby crying for a couple of days and didn’t see anyone coming or going, so she reported it,’ she said.

Baker, Emily (27 March 2020). "Pilgrimage: Road to Istanbul, BBC2, review: More Duke of Edinburgh than religious education". i (newspaper). Archived from the original on 4 April 2022 . Retrieved 4 April 2022. I would often sit with Maria at many championships around the world long after I retired. We shared many proud moments watching our women succeed. I doubt that many will be able to appreciate our leading women pioneers that we had in our sport. In 2012, she was a regular fitness expert appearing on This Morning. [62] 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. In The Guardian, David Stubbs wrote "More emotional than forensic, this is compulsory viewing nonetheless." [63] [64] In 2020, she trekked the Sultans Trail for BBC Two's Pilgrimage: Road to Istanbul. [65] [66] Mays, Ken (30 August 1986). "Whitbread finds her touch for first gold medal". The Daily Telegraph. p.29.

Come Dine With Me Athletics Special". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 30 November 2011 . Retrieved 3 September 2011. Fatima fails in bid to be queen of jungle". East Grinstead Courier and Observer. 8 December 2011. Archived from the original on 23 March 2014 . Retrieved 4 August 2012. Theresa Sanderson". European Athletics. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022 . Retrieved 30 April 2022. Fatima took bronze at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and in 1986 at the European Championships took gold and became a record breaker with a throw of 77.44m which added over 2 meters to the previous world record held by Petra Felke of the GDR, making her the first British thrower to break a world record.a b c d Whitbread, Fatima; Blue, Adrianne (1988). Fatima: The Autobiography of Fatima Whitbread. London: Pelham. ISBN 978-0720718560. Tessa Sanderson". UK Athletics. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020 . Retrieved 13 July 2020. Having finished behind fellow British competitor Tessa Sanderson in a run of 18 competitions, Whitbread finally defeated her rival with a throw of 62.14m ( 203ft 10 + 1⁄ 4in) to win the UK Athletics Championship in 1983, [14] [15] Whitbread won the silver medal at the inaugural World Championships in 1983, having narrowly qualified for the final. [14] She led throughout the final until Tiina Lillak bettered her mark with her last throw of the contest. [1] A few days before the 1984 Summer Olympics, Whitbread had a stomach operation but was still able to travel to the Games and compete. [16] She finished in the bronze medal position, with 67.14m ( 220ft 3 + 1⁄ 4in), and Sanderson (69.56m ( 228ft 2 + 1⁄ 2in)) won gold. [11] [14] [17] Lillak, who had a stress fracture in her right foot, won the silver medal. After the result, Whitbread commented that "I am so disappointed ... I was not right on the night." [16] In the months leading up to the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Whitbread suffered from several ailments: a shoulder injury, boils, glandular fever and problems with her gums. [29] Whitbread won the silver medal behind Felke, [14] with a throw that, although her best of the season, was some four metres less than her rival. [1] [30] Whitbread commented "If I had to be beaten, I am glad it was by Petra." [30] a b Stubbs, David (7 August 2012). "TV highlights 08/08/2012: Fatima Whitbread: Growing Up In Care". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 June 2022.