Sport in the United Kingdom sporting arena in rowing. It is widely considered that the sport's most successful rower is Steve Redgrave who won five gold medals and one bronze medal at five consecutive Olympic Games, as well as numerous wins at the World Rowing Championships and Henley Royal Regatta. There are many other sports in which Britons compete, sometimes with success, but which do not receive much attention outside a small number of aficionados except during major events such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, or when a British athlete does something extraordinary such as breaking a world record. Examples include judo, gliding,
Anne Warner (rower) Anne Warner (rower) Anne Elizabeth Taubes Warner (born August 24, 1954) is a lawyer and a rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for the United States. Warner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Five Fields, Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1976 she was a member of the American eight-oared crew which won the bronze medal. Warner qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. In 2007, she received one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. She was a member of four