- Born
- Birth nameSteven Geoffrey Redgrave
- Height1.95 m
- Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave is a retired British rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is regarded as one of Britain's greatest-ever Olympians, 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.
In 2002, Redgrave was ranked number 36 in the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. As of 2012 he is the third most decorated British Olympian after Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2011 he received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award.- IMDb mini biography by: Dibyayan Chakravorty
- SpouseElizabeth Ann Callaway(1988 - present) (3 children)
- 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.
- Has won 5 Olympic gold medals in rowing.
- BBC Sports Golden Personality (among 50 past sports personality winners) in 2003.
- Delivered at Amersham General Hospital; birth weight 8lb 6oz.
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