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[[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''Steven Geoffrey Redgrave''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (born on 23 March 1962) is a retired [[ |
[[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''Steven Geoffrey Redgrave''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (born on 23 March 1962) is a retired [[English people|English]] [[rower]] who won gold medals at five consecutive [[Olympic Games]] from 1984 to 2000 as well as a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Games. He has also won three [[Commonwealth Games]] gold medals and nine [[World Rowing Championships]] gold medals. He has [[List of flag bearers for Great Britain at the Olympics|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]]. |
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Redgrave is the only Olympian to have won gold medals at five different Olympic Games in an [[endurance sport]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2000/ROWING/news/2000/09/item20000924130743_1.htm "Redgrave to end golden rowing career"]. ABC. Retrieved 28 July 2012</ref> This achievement has led to him being hailed as Britain's greatest Olympian.<ref name=knighted>{{cite news |
Redgrave is the only Olympian to have won gold medals at five different Olympic Games in an [[endurance sport]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2000/ROWING/news/2000/09/item20000924130743_1.htm "Redgrave to end golden rowing career"]. ABC. Retrieved 28 July 2012</ref> This achievement has led to him being hailed as Britain's greatest Olympian.<ref name=knighted>{{cite news |
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Sir Steven Redgrave in May 2011 | ||
Medal record | ||
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Representing Great Britain | ||
Men's Rowing | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1984 Los Angeles | Coxed Four | |
1988 Seoul | Coxed Pair | |
1988 Seoul | Coxless Pair | |
1992 Barcelona | Coxless Pair | |
1996 Atlanta | Coxless Pair | |
2000 Sydney | Coxless Four | |
World Championships | ||
1986 Nottingham | Coxed Pair | |
1987 Copenhagen | Coxed Pair | |
1987 Copenhagen | Coxless Pair | |
1989 Bled | Coxless Pair | |
1990 Tasmania | Coxless Pair | |
1991 Vienna | Coxless Pair | |
1993 Račice | Coxless Pair | |
1994 Indianapolis | Coxless Pair | |
1995 Tampere | Coxless Pair | |
1997 Aiguebelette | Coxless Four | |
1998 Cologne | Coxless Four | |
1999 St. Catharines | Coxless Four | |
Representing England | ||
1986 Edinburgh | Single Sculls | |
1986 Edinburgh | Coxless Pair | |
1986 Edinburgh | Coxed Four |
Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave CBE DL (born on 23 March 1962) is a retired English rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000 as well as a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Games. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals. 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.
Redgrave is the only Olympian to have won gold medals at five different Olympic Games in an endurance sport.[1] This achievement has led to him being hailed as Britain's greatest Olympian.[2][3][4] Redgrave was the first British athlete to have won five Olympic gold medals, a feat replicated by Sir Chris Hoy at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and is the third most decorated British Olympian with six medals, after the six of cyclist Sir Chris Hoy and the seven of cyclist Bradley Wiggins.
He married Ann Callaway (now Lady Redgrave) in 1988; an accomplished rower in her own right, Ann represented Great Britain in the women's eight at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 and was Chief Medical Officer to the GB rowing team from 1992 to 2001 and since 2009 their first full-time Medical Officer.[5]
Redgrave is the honourary president of British Rowing.[6]
Personal life
Redgrave was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Great Marlow School, a comprehensive school in Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
Redgrave has three children. His elder daughter Natalie took up rowing in 2009[7] and started competing for Oxford University Women's Boat Club in 2010,[7] and competed in the 2011 women's boat race, which Oxford won.[8] He has another daughter, Sophie, and a son, Zak.
Rowing career
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Redgrave stands 1.95 metres (6 ft 5 inches) tall. In his prime, he weighed more than 100 kilograms (16 st; 220 lb). His primary strength was in sweep oared rowing, where he has the distinction of being one of the few oarsmen to have won Olympic Gold rowing both bowside and strokeside (starboard and port). He also enjoyed success in indoor rowing, winning the World Championship for Indoor Rowing in 1991.[9] He was also a successful single sculler winning the Wingfield Sculls five times between 1985 and 1989, but not quite a world champion class single sculler.
From 1991 onwards, Redgrave, and the crews in which he rowed, became renowned for their consistent dominance. They set themselves apart from many other internationally successful crews by winning almost every time they raced. Indeed, the very occasional lapses in this winning run, such as the Lucerne regatta in 2000, were regarded with surprise by both the rowing community and the press.
For much of his career, Redgrave battled against severe illnesses. In 1992, he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (although he had continued to train for a considerable time prior to diagnosis). In September 1997, Diabetes mellitus type 1 was added to his list of ailments. Through careful management, however, he was able to continue training right up to the Sydney Olympics.[10]
In addition to his Olympic medals, Redgrave won 9 gold medals, 2 silvers, and a bronze at the Rowing World Championships. His 14 total Olympic and World Championship gold medals is unsurpassed by any other rower in history, although later equalled by his long-time rowing partner Matthew Pinsent.
Redgrave was an outstanding competitor at Henley Royal Regatta over twenty years. He won the Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup for coxless pairs seven times (twice with Andy Holmes, once with Simon Berrisford and four times with Matthew Pinsent), the Stewards' Challenge Cup for coxless fours five times, the Diamond Challenge Sculls twice, the Double Sculls Challenge Cup once (with Eric Sims) and the Queen Mother Challenge Cup for quadruple sculls once.
In 1989/1990 he was a member of the British bobsleigh team, as well as national champion.
Immediately after the winning 1996 Olympic Gold Medal in an interview Redgrave stated if anyone found him close to a rowing boat again they could shoot him.[11]
In 2000, Redgrave won his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal, retired from the sport, and became the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. In August 2000, the month prior to winning gold in Sydney, he took part in a 3-part BBC documentary entitled Gold Fever. This followed Redgrave and his crewmates in the coxless four in the years leading up to the Olympics, including video diaries recording the highs and lows in the quest for his fourth consecutive team gold.
He was made an MBE in 1987, a CBE in 1997, and he became a Knight Bachelor in 2001.[2]
In 2002, his achievement of winning gold medals at five consecutive Olympic games was voted the greatest sporting moment in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Sporting Moments.
Life after rowing
In April 2006 he completed his third London Marathon, raising a record £1,800,000 for charity.
In April 2008 Redgrave took part in the Olympic Torch relay for the games in China.
Redgrave is a supporter of Chelsea football club.
Steve Redgrave is also commemorated at Burnham Grammar School, Redbridge Community School and Broadlands Science and Engineering School as one of the four houses there.
Also, at Linton Village College in Cambridgeshire and Woodcote High School in Croydon, there is a school faculty (house) named after him.
He also starred in Top Ground Gear Force (although he did not realise until it was too late) for Sport Relief in 2008, where the Top Gear Team (Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond) took on Ground Force with predictable results, and trashed his garden.
He has also launched his own Fairtrade Cotton Brand of Clothing called FiveG which is sold in Debenhams department stores.[12]
He is also involved in starting a Rowing academy in India at Lavasa the new Hill City being developed near Pune City.[13]
In 2010, Redgrave was named a Patron of the Jaguar Academy of Sport.[14]
In 2012, Redgrave took up kayaking and attempted the Devises to Westminster marathon kayak race but had to withdraw halfway through due to tiredness. [15]
In 2012, Redgrave rowed on the Gloriana as part of the royal pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.[16]
In 2012, Redgrave was one of the final torch-bearers for the Olympic Games of London, carrying the torch into the stadium.
Achievements
- Olympic Medals: 5 Gold, 1 Bronze
- World Championship Medals: 9 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze
- Junior World Championship Medals: 1 Silver
- Thomas Keller Medal Outstanding International Rowing Career: 2001 (Awarded by FISA)
Olympic Games
- 2000 – Gold, Coxless Four (with Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster, James Cracknell)
- 1996 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1992 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1988 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Andy Holmes)
- 1988 – Bronze, Coxed Pair (with Andy Holmes and Patrick Sweeney)
- 1984 – Gold, Coxed Four (with Martin Cross, Adrian Ellison, Andy Holmes, Richard Budgett).
World Rowing Championships
- 1999 – Gold, Coxless Four (with James Cracknell, Ed Coode, Matthew Pinsent)
- 1998 – Gold, Coxless Four (with James Cracknell, Tim Foster, Matthew Pinsent)
- 1997 – Gold, Coxless Four (with James Cracknell, Tim Foster, Matthew Pinsent)
- 1995 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1994 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1993 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1991 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1990 – Bronze, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1989 – Silver, Coxless Pairs (with Simon Berrisford)
- 1989 – 5th, Coxed Pairs (with Simon Berrisford and Patrick Sweeney)
- 1987 – Gold, Coxless Pairs (with Andy Holmes)
- 1987 – Silver, Coxed Pairs (with Andy Holmes and Patrick Sweeney)
- 1986 – Gold, Coxed Pairs (with Andy Holmes and Patrick Sweeney)
- 1985 – 12th, Single Sculls
- 1983 – Single Sculls
- 1982 – 6th, Quadruple Scull
- 1981 – 8th, Quadruple Scull
Junior World Rowing Championships
- 1980 – Silver, Double Sculls
- 1979 – Single Sculls
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
- 1981 – Double Sculls Challenge Cup
Other
- 1996 – Winner of UK Celebrity Gladiators
- 2000 – BBC Sports Personality of the Year
- 2001 – Collected a knighthood from her majesty Elizabeth II
- 2010 – Awarded the degree of Hon LLD from St Andrews University
- 2011 – BBC Sports – Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2012 – Carried the London 2012 Olympic Torch in to the Olympic Stadium
Bibliography
- Steve Redgrave: A Golden age (2000) with Nick Townsend (ghostwriter). ISBN 0-563-55182-8
- 2nd edition: 2001 ISBN 0-563-53821-X
- Steve Redgrave's Complete Book of Rowing (1992). ISBN 1-85225-124-7
- 2nd edition: 1995 ISBN 1-85225-230-8
- You Can Win At Life! (2005) with Nick Townsend. ISBN 0-563-48776-3.
Redgrave has also written a foreword to Diabetes: The at Your Fingertips Guide 5th edition (2003) ISBN 1-85959-087-X
See also
- Jack Beresford, rower, Britain's most successful Olympian prior to Redgrave's fourth Gold medal, with three Gold and two Silver medals from 1920–1936
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event
Styles and Honours
- Mr Steve Redgrave (1962–1987)
- Mr Steve Redgrave MBE (1987–1997)
- Mr Steve Redgrave CBE (1997–2001)
- Sir Steve Redgrave CBE (2001–)
References
- ^ "Redgrave to end golden rowing career". ABC. Retrieved 28 July 2012
- ^ a b "Queen honours Redgrave". BBC News. 1 May 2001.
- ^ "Sir Steve steps out for diabetes". BBC News. 10 June 2001.
- ^ Hart, Simon (6 September 2003). "Olympics: London want Redgrave in driving seat". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^ "GB Rowing's Coaching line-up". British Rowing. October 01, 2008. Retrieved August 03, 2012.
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- ^ a b Quarrell, Rachel (3 March 2011). "Natalie Redgrave ready to follow her father's footsteps and take the plunge for Oxford in varsity Boat Race". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ "Natalie Redgrave helps Oxford win Women's Boat Race". BBC News. 27 March 2011. Retrieved August 03, 2012.
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- ^ Gallen, Ian W. (1 July 2003). "Olympic Diabetes" (PDF). Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians. 03 (4): 333–337.
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- ^ "Steve Redgrave Official Website". Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ Redgrave, to help nurture rowing in India The Hindu, June 14, 2010
- ^ Jaguar Academy of Sport. "Homepage".
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17649561
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9272330/Diamond-Jubilee-Steve-Redgrave-and-Matthew-Pinsent-to-lead-River-Pageant-in-royal-rowbarge-Gloriana.html
External links
- Official Website
- Sir Steve Redgrave Fairtrade Cotton FiveG Clothing range
- Virtual Library rowing information
- Marlow information
- Profile on RowingOne
- Video 1988 Pair(2-) Olympic race
- Video Sir Steve Redgrave discusses the key to a winning team
- Sir Steve Redgrave: myplace ambassador – creating places for young people to go to(video)
- The Sonshine of Our Lives: Sheila Redgrave tells the broader story of her son Sir Steve Redgrave
- Motion in Action Inspirational Story on Steve Redgrave
- Use dmy dates from September 2011
- English rowers
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Olympic rowers of Great Britain
- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year winners
- Deputy Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire
- Laureus World Sports Awards winners
- Knights Bachelor
- Sports players and officials awarded knighthoods
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta
- Members of Leander Club
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- People from Marlow, Buckinghamshire
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Rowers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Torch bearers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Male rowers