Great Britain at the Olympics and Sir Steve Redgrave, who won five gold medals in five consecutive Games in rowing, a record for an endurance event. Sailor Sir Ben Ainslie jointly holds the Great Britain record for most individual Olympic gold medals with Chris Hoy and Sir Mo Farah with four, and the most gold medals in a single event with three gold medals (in the Men's Finn class sailing event 2004–2012) - again shared with Jason Kenny (men's team sprint 2008–2016), Steve Redgrave (men's coxless pair 1988–1996) and Ed Clancy (men’s team pursuit 2008-2016). Sir Chris Hoy holds the record for gold medals in
Hugh Matheson (rower) Hugh Matheson (rower) Hugh Patrick Matheson (born 16 April 1949) at Ormiston near Hawick, Scotland is a British rower who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1972 Olympic Games in Munich he was a crew member of the British boat which finished tenth in the coxed four event. In 1974 he was a member of the British eight which won the silver medal at the Lucerne World Championships. At the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games he won the silver medal with the British boat in the eights competition. After