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Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave (born 23 March 1962) is a British retired
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who won gold medals at five consecutive
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from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three
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gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport. Redgrave is regarded as one of Britain's greatest-ever Olympians. As of 2016 he was the fourth-most decorated British Olympian, after cyclists Sir
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. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2002, he was ranked number 36 in the BBC poll of the
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. He received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year – Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.


Early life and education

Redgrave was born in
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, to Geoffrey Edward Redgrave, a
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r in the
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who became a builder, and Sheila Marion, daughter of Harold Stevenson, a local bus driver. His great-grandparents Harry and Susannah Redgrave moved to Marlow from Bramfield, Suffolk, in 1887.Ancestry.com Steve Redgrave
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Rowing career

Redgrave's primary discipline was
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, in which he won Olympic Gold rowing both bowside and strokeside (
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). From 1991, the crews in which he rowed became renowned for their consistent dominance, winning almost every time they raced. For much of his career he suffered illness: in 1992 he was diagnosed with
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, and in 1997 he was diagnosed with
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.


Olympic games

Redgrave won gold medals at five consecutive
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from 1984 to 2000, plus a bronze medal at the
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. Immediately after winning the 1996 Olympic Gold Medal, he stated that if anyone found him close to a rowing boat again, they could shoot him. However, he changed his mind shortly afterward, and resumed training after a four-month break. The gold medal achieved by him and
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in the coxless pair at the
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games was particularly notable for being the only gold medal achieved by the entire British Olympic team across all sports during that particular Olympic games. In 2000, he won his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal and retired from the sport. In August 2000, prior to his final Olympic Games, the BBC broadcast ''
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'', a three-part BBC documentary which had followed the coxless four in the years leading up to the Olympics. It included video diaries recording the highs and lows in the quest for gold. At the medal ceremony after the
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he was also presented with a gold Olympic pin by IOC President
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in recognition of his achievement.


World Championships

At the World Rowing Championships he won nine gold medals, two silvers, and a bronze. He won the World Championship for Indoor rowing in 1991.


Henley Royal Regatta

He competed at
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for more than two decades, winning: the Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup for coxless pairs seven times (twice with
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); the Stewards' Challenge Cup for coxless fours five times; the
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twice; the
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with Eric Sims then with Adam Clift; and the Queen Mother Challenge Cup for quadruple sculls.


Wingfield Sculls

He won the
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for single scullers five times between 1985 and 1989.


Life after rowing

In April 2006 Redgrave completed his third
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, raising a record £1,800,000 for charity. He starred in ''
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'' for Sport Relief in 2008, where the ''
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'' Team (
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and
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) took on ''Ground Force'' with predictable results, and trashed his garden. He launched his own Fairtrade Cotton Brand of clothing called FiveG, which is sold in
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department stores. He was involved in starting a rowing academy in India at
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, the new Hill City being developed near
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City. In April 2008, Redgrave took part in the
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for the games in Beijing, and he went on to be one of the final torch-bearers for the
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in London, carrying the torch into the
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, where seven young athletes shared the task of lighting the cauldron at the
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. He was named a Patron of the Jaguar Academy of Sport in 2010. In 2012, he took up
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and attempted the Devizes-to-Westminster marathon kayak race, but had to withdraw halfway through due to tiredness. He rowed on the ''
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'' as part of the royal pageant for the
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of
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. In August 2014, Redgrave was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''
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'' expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. In May 2018, Redgrave assumed the High-Level Performance Director role for the Chinese Rowing Association to help China's rowing team's target of one gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games and two golds at Paris 2024.


Personal life

He married Ann Callaway (now Ann, Lady Redgrave) in 1988; also an elite rower, she represented Great Britain in the women's eight at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. She was Chief Medical Officer to the GB rowing team from 1992 to 2001 and since 2009 their first full-time Medical Officer. He is the honorary president of
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. Redgrave has three children, Natalie, Sophie and Zak. Natalie rowed with the
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which won the women's boat race at Henley Boat Races in 2011. He is a supporter of
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.


Honours

Redgrave was made a
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(MBE) in 1987, and promoted to
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(CBE) in 1997. In the
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he was appointed a
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"for services to Rowing", which he received in
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from Queen
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on 1 May 2001. He was voted the
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in 2000, , and received the BBC Sports – Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He was awarded the
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of
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from Heriot Watt University in November 2001, having previously been awarded an Honorary Blue in 1997. In 2000, his fifth Olympic gold was voted the greatest sporting moment in
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's
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. The
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was opened by him and Matthew Pinsent in 2006. The lake and boathouse provide training, medical and scientific facilities for the GB rowing squad. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the
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"in recognition of his outstanding sporting achievements and role as a sports ambassador".Quote taken from the programme notes of the ceremony in McEwan Hall, Edinburgh 8 October 2013


Achievements

*
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medals: 5 gold, 1 bronze *
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medals: 9 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze * Junior World Championship medals: 1 silver


Olympic Games

* 2000 – Gold, Coxless Four (with
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, 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 Andrew John Holmes (15 October 1959 – 24 October 2010)Patrick Sweeney) * 1984 – Gold, Coxed Four (with Martin Cross, Adrian Ellison, Andy Holmes and 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 –
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* 1983 – Diamond Challenge Sculls * 1982 – Double Sculls Challenge Cup * 1981 – Double Sculls Challenge Cup


Other

* 1996 – Winner of ''Celebrity Gladiators'' * 2000 –
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* 2001 – Collected a knighthood from Queen
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* 2001 – Received an Honorary Doctorate from
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* 2010 – Awarded the degree of Hon. LLD from the
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* 2011 – BBC Sports – Lifetime Achievement Award * 2012 – Carried the London 2012 Olympic Torch into the Olympic Stadium * 2013 – Awarded an honorary doctorate by the
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"in recognition of his outstanding sporting achievements and role as a sports ambassador".


Bibliography

* ''Steve Redgrave: A Golden age'' (2000) with Nick Townsend (
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). ** 2nd edition: 2001 * ''Steve Redgrave's Complete Book of Rowing'' (1992). ** 2nd edition: 1995 * ''You Can Win At Life!'' (2005) with Nick Townsend. . * ''Inspired ''(2009). * Foreword to ''Diabetes: The at Your Fingertips Guide'' 5th edition (2003)


See also

*
Jack Beresford Jack Beresford, CBE (1 January 1899 – 3 December 1977), born Jack Beresford-Wiszniewski, was a British rower who won five medals at five Olympic Games in succession. This record in Olympic rowing was not matched until 2000 when Sir Steve Re ...
, rower, Britain's most successful Olympian prior to Redgrave's fourth gold medal, with three gold and two silver medals from 1920 to 1936 *
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*
List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event This is a list of Olympians that have won at least three gold medals in one event. It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. The O ...
* List of people diagnosed with ulcerative colitis


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