Bike owner Mark Cavendish has been awarded a knighthood within the King’s Birthday Honours.
The 39-year-old from the Isle of Man has gained a joint-record 34 Tour de France levels and gained the world highway race title in 2011, the identical 12 months he was made an MBE. Cavendish can be a silver medallist within the omnium on the 2016 Olympics.
Dot Tilbury, Cavendish’s first coach, mentioned: “Everyone in the Isle of Man, from young children to grannies, is so very proud of what he’s achieved.
“He has impressed many youngsters to assume that you do not have to come back from a giant metropolis to go after what you need in life.”
Former Scotland footballers Graeme Souness and Ally McCoist have additionally been recognised.
Souness, 71, turns into a CBE for providers to soccer and charity whereas McCoist is made an OBE for providers to soccer and broadcasting.
Different names from the world of sport to be honoured are former bike owner Chris Boardman, gold medalist within the males’s particular person pursuit on the 1992 Olympics, who turns into a CBE, whereas golfer Sandy Lyle and former England cricketer Katherine Sciver-Brunt are made OBEs and former England worldwide Chris Powell turns into an MBE.
Anita Neil, the sprinter who turned the primary black lady to compete for Nice Britain at an Olympic Video games in 1968, has been made an MBE.
Souness featured in three World Cups for Scotland and loved nice success at membership stage with Liverpool, the place he gained 5 league titles and three European Cups. Souness can be vice chairman of DEBRA, a charity which raises funding for, and consciousness of, the pores and skin situation epidermolysis bullosa (EB).
McCoist, 61, is finest recognized now as a co-commentator and pundit however loved nice success throughout his enjoying days, mainly at Rangers the place he stays the membership’s all-time high goalscorer, having been on track 355 instances in 581 matches and successful eight league titles.
Quick bowler Sciver-Brunt, 38, gained two 50-over World Cups and one T20 world title in a glittering profession with England.
Chris Powell, who turns into an MBE, was a part of Gareth Southgate’s England teaching workforce at Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup
Powell was a part of Gareth Southgate’s England teaching workforce at Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup.
He performed over 700 matches with golf equipment together with Southend, Charlton and Derby, is at present an assistant supervisor at Sheffield Wednesday and gained 5 England caps.
“I always thought that representing my country and the FA would be the pinnacle of my career, as both a player and a coach, but this honour is beyond my expectations,” Powell mentioned.
Boardman’s CBE recognises his work as commissioner at Energetic Journey England, the federal government’s govt company accountable for making strolling, wheeling and biking the popular selection for everybody to get round.
“I’m delighted to receive this honour for services to active travel,” Boardman mentioned.
“I started this journey many years ago when my daughter, Agatha, wanted to ride to the park. Even though it was just 500 metres away, I felt I had to say no, because I wasn’t sure I could keep her safe. That felt wrong, so I decided to do something about it.
“Almost 20 years on, the battle has by no means been extra related, so it has been a straightforward trigger to champion, particularly as I do know most mother and father would love transport independence for his or her children too. And if they’ve it, all of us do.”
Former England soccer worldwide Karen Carney has been awarded an OBE
Karen Carney, the previous England soccer worldwide, who’s main efforts to reform the ladies’s recreation at elite and grassroots stage, turns into an OBE.
Kay Cossington, the Soccer Affiliation’s girls’s technical director, has been made an MBE.
Wayne Barnes, who refereed final 12 months’s Rugby World Cup remaining, turns into an OBE for providers to his sport.
Lyle, 66, who now turns into an OBE having been made an MBE in 1987, gained The Masters in 1988 having gained his first main on the US Open in 1985.
Lyle mentioned: “I am both honoured and humbled to be recognised in this way for my contribution to the game I have loved for as long as I could hold a club.
“The sport of golf has introduced me so many unbelievable moments and recollections through the years and I’ve been blessed and privileged to share these with household and nice mates all through my profession.”
Kevin Miles, the chief govt of the Soccer Supporters’ Affiliation, which has campaigned tirelessly for an impartial regulator within the sport, turns into an OBE, whereas Rebecca Redfern, who gained swimming silver medals on the 2016 and 2020 Paralympics, has been made an MBE.
Stuart Benson, who was a part of Britain’s four-man bobsleigh workforce which gained bronze on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, has additionally been made an MBE.
