"Ed Coode Edward Coode, MBE (born 19 June 1975) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Born in Cornwall in 1975, Coode boarded at Papplewick School and Eton College. He studied marine biology at University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Keble College, Oxford, and rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 Boat Race. Coode won his first World Championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell. When Tim Foster returned to the four, Coode was put into the coxless pair with Greg"
"of the adventure, ""On Thin Ice"" (Twofour), in June–July 2009. The series was accompanied by a self-penned book of the race, ""Race to the Pole"" (MacMillan). In July 2008 Cracknell competed in the European Triathlon Championships for GBR for his age group and in November 2009 he took part in the New York Marathon. In April 2009, James completed the 125-mile non-stop Devizes to Westminster Canoe Marathon in a two-man racing K2 kayak with canoe partner Bernie Shosbree. In August 2009 Cracknell attempted to break the non-stop Land's End to John O'Groats mixed tandem world record along with Olympic gold"
"Dickie Burnell Richard Desborough Burnell (26 July 1917 – 29 January 1995) was an English rower who won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics alongside Bert Bushnell in the double sculls. He and his father Charles are the only father and son in Olympic history to have both won gold medals in rowing. Burnell was born in Henley-on-Thames the son of Charles Burnell who won a gold medal in the eights at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. In May 1939, Burnell was commissioned into the London Rifle Brigade. He was on"
"Bert Bushnell Bertram Harold Thomas Bushnell (3 September 1921 – 10 January 2010) was a British rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal alongside Dickie Burnell in the double sculls, having had hopes to compete in the single sculls following a series of victories whilst competing in South America. Having initially competed in athletics whilst at school, he took up competitive rowing in 1939, and during the Second World War he worked at John I. Thornycroft & Company's shipyard as a marine engineer and was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He retired from"
"ahead of his rowing team mate Matthew Pinsent. In January 2008 Cracknell set up Threshold Sports with Julian Mack and Charlie Beauchamp. In December 2008 he set off yet again with former team-mate from the Atlantic Row, Ben Fogle, and Dr Ed Coats (the winner of a nationwide search), this time to take part in the inaugural Amundsen Omega3 South Pole Race. The team traversed the 473.6 miles suffering frostbite, infected blisters, dramatic weight-loss, pneumonia and exhaustion and came second only to a pair of Norwegians (over 20 hours). The BBC aired a 5 x 1-hour, prime-time Sunday night series"
"James Cracknell OBE and Ben Fogle, a UK TV presenter. They crossed the finish at 07:13 UTC on 19 January 2006, a crossing time of 49 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes. They were eventually placed second in the doubles division due to a time penalty, issued for using their emergency water ration. A BBC television programme on their experience, ""Through Hell and High Water"", was aired in February 2006. The fourth boat to finish, and winner of the Doubles division, was ""C2"" who crossed the line at 14:15 UTC on 20 January 2006, a crossing time of 51 days, 2"
"10-second barrier. This raised him to second on the all-time British rankings behind Linford Christie, and equal with James Dasaolu. ""Times given in seconds and senior world rank in parentheses"" Zharnel Hughes Zharnel Hughes (born 13 July 1995) is a British sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He won the gold medal in both the 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2018 European Championships representing Great Britain, and in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, representing England. Born and raised in the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla,"
"competition at the Echo Arena in Liverpool - walking away with three Gold and two Silver medals. On the Tuesday 20th March 2018 Alex Buesnel announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics after 14 years in the sport. The Jerseyman will continue to train and will now focus on his coaching career - inspiring the next generation of gymnasts. Alex Buesnel Alexander Thomas Harry Buesnel (born 8 October 1992) is a British artistic gymnast. He is a ten-time British Disability Gymnastics Champion as well as a Gold medalist in the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. He was"
"the sport was run alongside the British Gymnastics Championships at Echo Arena in Liverpool. Alex won the Disability All-Round Gold while sharing the arena with Olympic greats including Louis Smith MBE and Daniel Keatings. In March 2015, Alex competed in his second British Masters competition at the Echo Arena in Liverpool claiming four Gold and two Silver medals. Buesnel's domination of the British Open Championship also continued with Gold All-Round on his way to his eighth straight British title winning all pieces of apparatus. Another of his achievement's in 2015 was to take two Silver medals and a Bronze for"
"at a catch-weight of 172-pounds. James DeGale James Frederick DeGale, (born 3 February 1986) is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time former super-middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title twice between 2015 and 2018. At regional level he held the European and British super-middleweight titles between 2010 and 2012. DeGale represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics as an amateur, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division. He also won silver medals at the 2007 and 2008 EU Championships, and bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. By later becoming IBF champion, he became the first British"
"the losing Oxford team in The Boat Race in 1939. He was a rowing correspondent for ""The Times"" and wrote several books on rowing matters. He competed for Kingston Rowing Club and in 1946 won the Wingfield Sculls. At the 1948 Olympics Burnell won a gold medal with Bert Bushnell in the double sculls, Burnell and Bushnell having never previously trained together. Jack Beresford told Bushnell that he had no chance to win the single sculls, and so created the double sculls team instead. Their differing physiques – Burnell was 6 ft 4 inches and weighed 14½ stone, while Bushnell"
"an open global championship until Moroccan-born Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain won both golds at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics at Helsinki. (After the 2008 Olympic Games Ramzi was stripped of his Olympic gold medal for doping, but that penalty was not applied retroactively to his World Championship gold medals). In January 1962 Snell broke the world mile record before a huge crowd at Cooks Gardens in Whanganui, and one week later set new world records for both the 800 m and 880 yd at Christchurch. He then won gold and set a new record for 880 yd at the"
"medallist Rebecca Romero. The pair got just past Johnstone Bridge in Scotland before being forced to stop due to problems with Romero's knees. They were on course to break the record by over three hours. The attempt was to launch the 2010 Ride Across Britain that Cracknell's company organised In April 2010 Cracknell became the highest placed Briton ever in the 25-year history of the Marathon des Sables, finishing 12th. His exploits were filmed for a Discovery Channel documentary ""The Toughest Race on Earth"" to be aired in October 2010. This highest ever placing was beaten in 2013 by another"
"Briton, Danny Kendall who finished 10th. Six months after his cycling accident which damaged his frontal lobe (see below), Cracknell competed in the Yukon Arctic Ultra. He finished second in the 430-mile race across the frozen Alaskan countryside, beaten only by British cyclist Alan Sheldon who beat Cracknell's 163:20 with his own 99:30. Cracknell's participation in the race was filmed for the documentary The Coldest Race on Earth aired on the Discovery Channel. He ran the 2012 London Marathon in just under three hours, one of the fastest celebrities, but behind Nell McAndrew. Cracknell has presented sport on ITV and"
"in 1947. Bushnell hoped to compete at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the single scull event. However, after he was a distant runner-up by five lengths in the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta on 4 July 1948, to Australian policeman Mervyn Wood, who subsequently won the Olympic singles that year, Bushnell was chosen instead to pair with old Etonian Oxonian rower Dickie Burnell in the Olympic double sculls event, having never previously trained with his new partner. Jack Beresford told Bushnell that there wasn't a chance for him to win the single sculls, and so created the double"
"Reese and lives with him in Atascadero, California, in the United States. She holds dual UK/US citizenship. Mary Rand Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal on 10 February 1940) is a former English track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field. She remains the only Great Britain female athlete to win three medals in a single Games. Mary Rand is the daughter of Eric and Hilda Bignal. She was born and grew up in Wells,"
"Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell, a friend of Pollock. An avid rower Pollock has won bronze and silver medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England and has also written a book titled ""Making It Happen"". Pollock was born to Barbara and Johnny in Holywood, County Down.When Mark was five, he lost the sight of his right eye and was forced during the remainder of his childhood to avoid contact team sports to preserve the vision in his left eye. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution where he was a keen rower. He later went"
"four silver medals. Kathleen McKane Godfree also won five medals, but were one gold, two silvers, and two bronzes. Lizzy Yarnold is the most successful British athlete at the Winter Olympics, with two gold medals. Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny (both cycling), Ben Ainslie (sailing) Alistair Brownlee (Triathlon) and Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton) are the most successful Olympic competitors in their sports, as of 2018. Steve Redgrave and Reginald Doherty are the most successful male athletes in their respective sports, rowing and tennis. In addition, Shirley Robertson, Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb with two gold medals in sailing, Nicola Adams in boxing"
"in Leeds as an orthopaedic surgeon. Roger Hackney Roger Graham Hackney (born 2 September 1957) is a Welsh former long-distance runner who specialised in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He represented Great Britain in three Olympic Games and won a silver medal for Wales at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. Hackney, who was a member of the Royal Air Force, and trained at Aldershot, Farnham and District AC, specialised in the 3000m steeplechase. He made his Olympics debut as a 22-year old at the 1980 Moscow Games and was seventh in his semi-final, only just missing out on a spot in the"
"James DeGale James Frederick DeGale, (born 3 February 1986) is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time former super-middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title twice between 2015 and 2018. At regional level he held the European and British super-middleweight titles between 2010 and 2012. DeGale represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics as an amateur, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division. He also won silver medals at the 2007 and 2008 EU Championships, and bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. By later becoming IBF champion, he became the first British boxer ever to have won"
"these hopes were dashed when the event was removed from the Glasgow games' schedule. In 2013 James became a pilot for paracyclist Sophie Thornhill. The pair won a gold medal and set a new world record at the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Aguascalientes in the 1km time trial, on their debut in a major international event. They subsequently won a second gold in the tandem sprint. James represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014 where she rode as pilot for former paralympic swimmer Rhiannon Henry. James reunited with Thornhill to compete in the 2014 British"
"youngest medal winner in the 1999 world championships, and fourth place at the 2000 Olympics were marred by a later scandal over the use of performance-enhancing drugs, like Christie before him. Kelly Holmes won Olympic gold in both the 800m and 1500m, and set many British records. In cricket, many have represented England: Devon Malcolm, Phillip DeFreitas, Chris Lewis, Gladstone Small, Dean Headley, Alex Tudor, Michael Carberry and Chris Jordan to name a few. In Formula 1, the highest rank of motorsport sanctioned by the FIA, Lewis Hamilton from Stevenage is the current world champion, having also won the championship"
"Atlantic race, was aired. The pair wrote a book called ""The Crossing: Conquering the Atlantic in the World's Toughest Rowing Race"", about their trip. On 4 March 2006, Cracknell's home was burgled; his Olympic gold medals were stolen, together with his wedding ring and a computer containing 20,000 words of a new book and family photographs. The gold medals were subsequently recovered by a neighbour's dog where the thief had discarded them. The thief, Mark Murphy, 30, was caught and jailed. He ran the London Marathon on 23 April 2006, in a time of 3 hours, finishing over an hour"
"win) and, soon after, Sebastian Coe became the first man to do so in 1984. No athlete of either sex has won more than two medals. Historically, athletes in this event have also had success in the 800 metres at the Olympics. Kelly Holmes was the last athlete to win both events at the same Olympics in 2004. 2012 1500m gold medalist Taoufik Makhloufi made both podiums without winning gold in 2016. Great Britain is the most successful nation in the event, having won six gold medals and a total of fourteen. Kenya has the next highest number of gold"
"four children and their son Richard Burnell was also an Olympic rower, winning a gold medal in 1948 in the double sculls. Burnell died at Blewbury, Oxfordshire, at the age of 93 on 3 October 1969. Charles Burnell Charles Desborough 'Don' Burnell, (13 January 1876 – 3 October 1969) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Burnell was born at Beckenham, then in Kent. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and was a member of the winning Oxford crews in the Boat Races of 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898. He became a"
"Alex Buesnel Alexander Thomas Harry Buesnel (born 8 October 1992) is a British artistic gymnast. He is a ten-time British Disability Gymnastics Champion as well as a Gold medalist in the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. He was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and started his gymnastics career in 2004 under the watchful eye of Jersey Special Gymnastics Club founder John Grady . Since 2004, Buesnel has competed in competitions across the globe representing both Jersey and Great Britain in National, European and World championships. One of his favourite skill elements is the 'Russian Lever'. Alexander"
"James became the first athlete to run a 200/400 double at the 2009 World Youth Championships and was the 2010 World Junior Champion. James received an athletic scholarship at the University of Alabama and won back-to-back NCAA Outdoor Championship titles in his first two years. He is the third fastest of all-time indoors (44.80 seconds) and ran a personal best of 43.74 at a 2014 Diamond League event in Lausanne. James is one of only nine athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels and David Storl) to win world championships"
"Jersey in the mainstream Inter Island Games in Anglesey, Wales in 2015. As well as his ninth British Open success, 2016 saw Buesnel become an ambassador for British Gymnastics, the governing body for gymnastics in the United Kingdom. The Channel Islander also passed his Level 2 Coaching assessment. In the summer of 2017, Buesnel contested his third Special Olympics National Games in Sheffield and thrived in competition as he was awarded seven Gold medals. Alex was chosen to perform his Horizontal Bar routine at a special gala performance to close the competition. 2017 was a breakthrough year for Buesnel as"
"basketball, ice hockey, tennis, and golf were popular globally. In cricket the emergence of the Twenty20 format as well as the creation of the Indian Premier League led to changes in the nature of the sport. American swimmer Michael Phelps won an Olympic record setting 8 Gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Modern Olympic Games Association football Athletics Aquatics Cricket Cycling Rugby Union Tennis (Men) Tennis (Women) Motorsport Golf Boxing Entertainment during the 21st century had evolved from the same types of entertainment which emerged around the middle of the 20th century. Sports, films, music, TV series' and books"
"with 231 medals in total, including 95 gold medals. Host Great Britain placed third with 120 medals, including 34 golds. The most successful athlete at the Games was Australian swimmer Jacqueline Freney, who won eight gold medals. The most successful athletes outside the swimming competition were Raymond Martin from the United States and David Weir from Great Britain, who both won four gold medals each in athletics, and Sarah Storey from Great Britain, who won four gold medals in cycling. The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with"
"him to the top step, claiming the all-round Gold. Buesnel was also awarded another Gold medal in a special gala event to close the competition. Buesnel contested his first Special Olympics European Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Before the competition Buesnel along with his fellow athletes enjoyed a special reception with Prime Minister David Cameron. At the competition, Alex claimed three Gold's, three Silver and a Bronze - a strong showing for the Jerseyman and was just pipped to the All-Round Gold. As well as his European success Alex excelled in Britain. In March 2014, Disability Gymnasts' profile was raised when"
"personal best. In June he won the Diamond League events in Birmingham with a jump of 8.35m, and in Oslo with a jump of 8.25m. Rutherford won the gold medal at the World Championships on 25 August with a jump of 8.41m, his second-longest jump ever and the furthest he has so far jumped in a major championship. He is one of only six athletes to jump over 8.40m in a world championship final this century. His victory made him the fifth British athlete to hold Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles simultaneously, after Daley Thompson, Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell"
"fan, and is supporter of the Glasgow Warriors and the Scotland national team. Lee McConnell Lee McConnell (born 9 October 1978) is a retired Scottish athlete, who competed in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles having started her career as a high jumper. She is three-times an Olympian having competed for Great Britain at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and is 11-times a medalist at major championships. She was voted Scottish Athlete of the Year in 2002, 2003 and 2007. McConnell is a four-time World Championship bronze medallist in the 4 x 400 metres relay; in 2005 and"