17 Facts About Steve Redgrave

Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave was born on 23 March 1962 and is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000.

Steve Redgrave has won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds.

Steve Redgrave 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.

Steve Redgrave has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions.

Steve Redgrave won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000, plus a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Steve Redgrave won the World Championship for Indoor rowing in 1991.

Steve Redgrave won the Wingfield Sculls for single scullers five times between 1985 and 1989.

Steve Redgrave starred in Top Ground Gear Force for Sport Relief in 2008, where the Top Gear Team took on Ground Force with predictable results, and trashed his garden.

Steve Redgrave launched his own Fairtrade Cotton Brand of clothing called FiveG, which is sold in Debenhams department stores.

Steve Redgrave was involved in starting a rowing academy in India at Lavasa, the new Hill City being developed near Pune City.

Steve Redgrave was named a Patron of the Jaguar Academy of Sport in 2010.

Steve Redgrave rowed on the Gloriana as part of the royal pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

In May 2018, Steve 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.

Steve Redgrave married Ann Callaway in 1988; an elite rower, she represented Great Britain in the women's eight at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.

Steve Redgrave was Chief Medical Officer to the GB rowing team from 1992 to 2001 and since 2009 their first full-time Medical Officer.

Steve Redgrave was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1987, and promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997.

Steve Redgrave was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University from Heriot Watt University in November 2001, having previously been awarded an Honorary Blue in 1997.