Steve Redgrave

About Steve Redgrave

Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave, CBE, DL (born on 23 March 1962) is a retired British rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is regarded as Britain's greatest-ever Olympian, the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only person to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.

In 2002, Redgrave was ranked number 36 in the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.As of 2012 he is the third most decorated British Olympian after Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2011 he received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award.

Honours:

In the 2001 New Year Honours he was appointed a Knight Bachelor "for services to Rowing" which he received from Queen Elizabeth II on 1 May 2001 in Buckingham Palace.

He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1987 and promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1997.

In 2000 he was voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

In 2001 the International Rowing Federation awarded him the Thomas Keller Medal for Outstanding International Rowing Career.

In 2002, his fifth Olympic gold was voted the greatest sporting moment in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Sporting Moments.

The Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake was opened by him and Matt Pinsent in 2006. The lake and boathouse provide training, medical and scientific facilities for the GB rowing squad.

In 2010 he was a Awarded the degree of Hon. LLD from the University of St Andrews

In 2011 he was awarded the BBC Sports – Lifetime Achievement Award

In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh "in recognition of his outstanding sporting achievements and role as a sports ambassador".

He is commemorated at Burnham Grammar School, Redbridge Community School and Broadlands Science and Engineering School as one of the four houses there. At Linton Village College in Cambridgeshire and Woodcote High School in Croydon, there is a school faculty (house) named after him.

Steve Redgrave Achievements

1984 Summer Olympics-Gold:

The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984. When Tehran, the only other interested city on the international level, declined to bid due to the concurrent Iranian political and social changes, the IOC awarded Los Angeles the Games by default. This was the second occasion Los Angeles hosted the games; it previously hosted in 1932

Steve Redgrave won his first title in rowing of the record five he would go on to win in five Olympic competitions.

1988 Summer Olympics-Gold:

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. They were also the fourth Olympic Games to be held in autumn.

1992 Summer Olympics-Gold:

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Spain in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994. The 1992 Summer Games were the last to be staged in the same year as the Winter Games.Due to the end of the Cold War, these games were the first without boycotts since 1972.In fact the Olympics was the final success of the former Soviet Union (despite only part of it taking part), and biggest of the "Olympic flag" (Nations from the former USSR competed as the Unified Team, coming 1st in the overall rankings).

1996 Summer Olympics-Gold:

The 1996 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1996), known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially as the Centennial Olympics, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from July 19 to August 4, 1996. A record 197 nations, all current IOC member nations, took part in the Games, comprising 10,318 athletes. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994. The 1996 Summer Games were the first to be staged in a different year from the Winter Games. Atlanta became the fifth American city to host the Olympic Games and the third to hold a Summer Olympic Games.

2000 Summer Olympics-Gold:

By rowing in the winning coxless four, Steve Redgrave of Great Britain became a member of a select group who had won gold medals at five consecutive Olympics.

The swimming 4 x 100-metre medley relay of B.J. Bedford, Megan Quann (Jendrick), Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres became the first women's relay under 4-minutes, swimming 3:58 and setting a world record, claiming the gold medal for the United States.

Junior World Rowing Championships:

1980 – Silver, Double Sculls

1979 – Single Sculls

World Championships:

Gold-1986 Nottingham

Silver-1987 Copenhagen

Gold-1987 Copenhagen

Silver-1989 Bled

Bronze-1990 Tasmania

Gold-1991 Vienna

Gold-1993 Racice

Gold-1994 Indianapolis

Gold-1995 Tampere

Gold-1997 Aiguebelette

Gold-1998 Cologne

Gold-1999 St. Catharines

Henley Royal Regatta:

2001 – Queen Mother Challenge Cup

2000 – Stewards' Challenge Cup

1999 – Stewards' Challenge Cup

1998 – Stewards' Challenge Cup

1997 – Stewards' Challenge Cup

1995 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1994 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1993 – Stewards' Challenge Cup

1993 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1991 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1989 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1987 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1986 – Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1985 – Diamond Challenge Sculls

1983 – Diamond Challenge Sculls

1982 – Double Sculls Challenge Cup

1981 – Double Sculls Challenge Cup

Commonwealth Games:

Gold-1986 Edinburgh

Gold-1986 Edinburgh

Gold-1986 Edinburgh

Other:

1996 – Winner of UK Celebrity Gladiators

2000 – BBC Sports Personality of the Year

2001 – Collected a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II

2010 – Awarded the degree of Hon. LLD from the University of St Andrews

2011 – BBC Sports – Lifetime Achievement Award

2012 – Carried the London 2012 Olympic Torch into the Olympic Stadium

2013 - Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh "in recognition of his outstanding sporting achievements and role as a sports ambassador"