Steve Redgrave Steve Redgrave Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave (born on 23 March 1962) 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 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. Redgrave is regarded as one of Britain's greatest-ever Olympians. As of 2016 he is the fourth most decorated British Olympian after cyclists Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Sir
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