Editing Fatima Whitbread (section)

===World record, and European and World championship wins===
The following month, Whitbread broke the [[javelin world record]] with a throw of {{T&Fcalc|77.44}} in the qualifying round of the [[1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw|1986 European Championships]], more than 2 m further than the record set by [[Petra Felke]] of [[East Germany]] the previous year. She was the first British athlete to set a world record in a throwing event.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rodda |first=John |title=Whitbread's world record earns morning glory |newspaper=The Guardian |date=29 August 1986 |page=20 }}</ref> Felke led for the first three rounds, before Whitbread produced a throw of {{T&Fcalc|72.68}} in the fourth round, and {{T&Fcalc|73.68}} in the fifth round to win her first major championship gold.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mays |first=Ken |title=Whitbread finds her touch for first gold medal |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| date=30 August 1986 |page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Another golden day |newspaper=Western Daily Herald | date=30 August 1986 |page=28}}</ref> Whitbread later wrote that "All the years of training had finally come to something{{nbsp}}... I went on my lap of honour{{nbsp}}... Spontaneously, I wiggled my hips in happiness, a victory wiggle."<ref name="FWAUTO"/>{{rp|168}} The record was beaten by Felke in July 1987 with a throw of {{T&Fcalc|79.80}}.<ref>{{cite news |last=Butcher |first=Pat |title=Felke throws out a new challenge |newspaper=The Times |date=31 July 1987 |page=30}}</ref>

Whitbread qualified for the final of the [[1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw|1987 World Championships]] in second place behind Felke.<ref>{{cite news |title=Javelin duo lift GB hopes |newspaper=Cambridge Evening News |date=5 September 1987 |page=4 }}</ref> Her throw of {{T&Fcalc|76.64}} was, at the time, the third-longest ever, and won her the title ahead of Felke. Sanderson was fourth.<ref>{{cite news |last=Keating |first=Frank |title=Fatima spearheads British victories |newspaper=The Guardian |date=7 September 1987 |page=1}}</ref> Her celebratory wiggles after defeating Felke in the World and European event became well known in the UK. She was voted winner of the [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year]] award in 1987.<ref name="BBCa">{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/spl/hi/tv_and_radio/02/sport_personality/past_winners/html/1984.stm|title=Sports Personality of the Year – Past Winners|work=BBC Sport|access-date=23 November 2007|archive-date=22 July 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040722114921/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/spl/hi/tv_and_radio/02/sport_personality/past_winners/html/1984.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> David Powell wrote in ''[[The Times]]'', that "To that practiced smile, she has added the 'Whitbread wiggle'. She is succeeding in bringing personality to her event in the same way that [[Willie Banks]] did to the triple jump."<ref name="POWELL">{{cite news| last=Powell |first=David |newspaper=The Times |title= Whitbread's winter work |date=10 September 1987 |page=42}}</ref>