Editing Fatima Whitbread (section)

==Honours and awards==
Whitbread was runner-up to [[Nigel Mansell]] in the 1986 [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award]]s,<ref>{{cite news |title=Consolation prize for Nigel |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |date=15 December 1986 |page=30}}</ref> and won the title the following year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Whitbread wins trophy |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=14 December 1987 |page=26}}</ref> She was named the [[Sports Journalists' Association|Sports Writers' Association]] Sportswoman of the Year in 1986 and 1987.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sport in brief: Awards |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 November 1986 |page=28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sport in brief: Awards |newspaper=The Guardian |date=11 December 1987 |page=28}}</ref> She was appointed a [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[1987 Birthday Honours]], for services to athletics.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sapsted |first=David |title=Life peerage for former Midlands chief constable |newspaper=The Times |date=13 June 1987 |page=4}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |date=13 June 1987 |supp=y |issue=50948 |page=15 |nolink=y }}</ref> Whitbread received the 2023 [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award]], for "outstanding achievement in the face of adversity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Fatima Whitbread wins Helen Rollason Award |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/67726237 |work=BBC Sport |date=19 December 2023}}</ref>