Oarsome Sir Steve tops honours list

13 April 2012

Steve Redgrave's knighthood caps the success enjoyed by Great Britain's Olympic team in this year's New Year's Honours List.

The five-times Olympic gold medallist becomes Sir Steven in a list in which all 21 of his fellow winners in Sydney are also honoured.

Redgrave's reward for his history-making feat with the coxless fours on Penrith Lake follows the CBE he received after victory in Atlanta four years ago and the MBE he got in 1986.

His team-mate Matthew Pinsent, who won his third consecutive gold, receives the CBE, while Andrew Foster and James Cracknell are awarded MBEs.

MBEs also go to Britain's nine gold medallists in the men's coxed eight - Louis Atrill, Francis Hunt-Davis, Simon Dennis, Luka Grubor, Andrew Lindsay, Fred Scarlett, Stephen Trapmore, Kieran West and cox Rowley Douglas.

Jonathan Edwards gets the CBE for his triple jump gold medal, following the MBE he received during his world record-breaking year in 1995.

And Denise Lewis, who defied injury to edge home in the heptathlon, gets the OBE 12 months after the MBE she received for earning world championship silver.

Boxer Audley Harrison, pentathlete Stephanie Cook, shooter Richard Faulds and cyclist Jason Queally are all made MBEs.

And British sailing is celebrating MBEs for gold medallists Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy and Shirley Robertson.

The hugely successful British paralympic team are also recognised, with five gold medallists - Vicky Broadribb, Kenny Cairns, Caroline Innes, Isabel Newstead and Lee Pearson - receiving MBEs.

And the smooth organisation which bolstered the British team's chances is recognised with an MBE for British Olympic Association's Director of Games Services, Louise Ramsay.

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