Blue Earth Summit

FIVE Times Olympic gold medalist in five successive Games - Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney, in the words of the former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, "Raises Sir Steve Redgrave to the highest rank of Olympic participants."
NINE World Championships gold medalist, TRIPLE Commonwealth Gold Medallist. BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2000
Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award 2000 BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011
Awarded 13 Honorary Doctorates from universities in the UK including Durham, Loughborough, Hull, St Andrew’s, Aberdeen and the University of London.

What makes his achievements more remarkable is that he won against a background of serious illnesses. He nearly missed the Atlanta Games due to colitis, for which he still receives treatment, and in 1997 he was diagnosed as diabetic, three years before winning his gold in Sydney.

Knighted in the New Year's Honours List 2000, which accompanies his MBE in 1987 and his CBE in 1997.

Sir Steve has published six books.

In 2001 Sir Steve set-up a charity – The Steve Redgrave Trust, aimed at raising £5 million over five years for children’s charities. In April 2006 at the London Marathon, he broke the record for the most money raised by an individual, a staggering £1.8million and in doing so broke the £5 million target he set himself.

Steve became a recipient of the prestigious Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and today sits on the Executive Committee working with Sport For Good, the Charitable organisation with a remit to prove that the power of sport can change the world and put an end to violence discrimination and disadvantage.

Steve’s passion for cleaner waterways in the UK has led him to become a Water Guardian/ Ambassasor for the Charity River Action. Launched in 2021, River Action is on a mission to rescue Britain’s rivers by raising awareness of river pollution and applying pressure on industrial and agricultural producers, water companies, and other polluters. They are asking for these organisations to take greater responsibility for remedying the adverse environmental impact their supply chains are having on the health of our rivers. Steve has called on the Government to step in and push to make these changes.