A special day for Tessa Sanderson CBE and the Commonwealth Association

Olympic and Commonwealth champion gives 4th Patsy Robertson Memorial Lecture

Tessa Sanderson

For four years the Commonwealth Association has been organising a lecture in memory of its founding chair, Patsy Robertson, who died in 2020. The latest lecture, organised in association with the Commonwealth Youth Programme, was given by Tessa Sanderson CBE, the outstanding Olympic and Commonwealth champion, who spoke to an enthusiastic audience at Marlborough House on 14 October on the theme Sport, development and the Commonwealth.

Tessa was introduced by the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Scotland, who described the athlete as one of her sports heroines. Other speakers included Helen Phillips, the President of Commonwealth Games Wales and Chair of the Commonwealth Games Federation’s European Group and Dr Lin Sambili, Adviser, Sport for Development and Peace at the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Tessa’s lecture can be read here and the pictures to accompany it are available here

A selection of photos from the event

Baroness Scotland introduces Tessa Sanderson
Tessa Sanderson with Baroness Scotland
Stuart Mole, who chaired the meeting on behalf of the Commonwealth Association, with Tessa Sanderson
Tessa Sanderson with Helen Phillips MBE
Tessa stayed for the post-lecture reception and met Commonwealth Association members
Tessa Sanderson with guest Natasha Leslie
The lecture attracted people from a wide range of organisations. Here are members of Rotary International, which is accredited to the Commonwealth.
Members of Patsy Robertson’s family were in the audience
Helen Phillips with Professor Grant Jarvie, Director of the Academy of Sport at Edinburgh University
Members of the audience enjoying the post-lecture reception
Shobhna Rattansi and Greta Fernandes in conversation with Lin Sambili, the Secretariat’s Sports Adviser
Malcolm Ransome with Lin Sambili and Azimin Ibrahim from the Commonwealth Youth Programme
A good time was had by all

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