Sandra Henderson

Préfontaine and Henderson lighting the Olympic Flame

Sandra James (née Henderson) is a Canadian gymnast best known for co-lighting the Olympic Flame with Stéphane Préfontaine at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She was on the front of Sports Illustrated.

Sandra Henderson tried out for the Olympic gymnastics team at the age of 16 to compete in the 1976 summer games but did not make it. She retired from gymnastics in 1977 but continued competing at the university level when she was a student at the University of Toronto.

1980 Olympics

At the beginning of the 1980 Summer Olympics James was given the task of delivering the flame from Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau to Lord Killanin in Moscow. Historically the flames are passed from mayor to mayor but Canada was one of 64 countries that boycotted the games that year.

References

    Olympic Games
    Preceded by
    Christl Haas and Josef Feistmantl    		 Final Olympic torchbearer
    with Stéphane Préfontaine
    Montreal 1976    		 Succeeded by
    Charles Morgan Kerr
    Preceded by
    Günther Zahn    		 Final Summer Olympic torchbearer
    with Stéphane Préfontaine
    Montreal 1976    		 Succeeded by
    Sergei Belov



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