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 as well as a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Games, totalling six Olympic Medals. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. With five gold medals and one bronze, Redgrave is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and his achievement of being the only Olympian to have won gold medals at five different Olympic Games in an endurance sport has led to him being hailed as Britain's greatest-ever Olympian.In 2002, Redgrave was ranked number 36 in the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. He was the first British athlete to have won five Olympic gold medals, a feat surpassed only by Chris Hoy at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and is the third most decorated British Olympian with six medals, after the seven of Hoy and the seven of cyclist Bradley Wiggins. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2011 Redgrave received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award, Laureus World Sports Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year, Milliyet Sports Award for World Athlete of the Year
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BBC Sports Golden Personality (among 50 past sports personality winners) in 2003.
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Has won 5 Olympic gold medals in rowing.
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He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire)in the 1987 New Year Honours List, CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1997 Queen's New Years Honours List and awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 New Years Honours List for his services to Rowing.