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| show-medals = | updated = 5 March 2014 }} Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave, CBE, DL (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 regarded as Britain's greatest-ever Olympian, the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only person to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.〔("Redgrave to end golden rowing career" ). ABC. Retrieved 28 July 2012〕 In 2002, Redgrave was ranked number 36 in the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. As of 2012 he is the third most decorated British Olympian after Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2011 he received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award. ==Early life and education== Redgrave was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire to Geoffrey Edward Redgrave, a submariner in World War II who became a builder, and Sheila Marion daughter of Harold Stevenson, a local bus driver. In 1887 his great grandparents, Harry and Susannah Redgrave, migrated to Marlow from Bramfield, Suffolk.〔(Ancestry.com Steve Redgrave )〕 He was educated at Great Marlow School, where he achieved ABRSM Grade 5 on the Bassoon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Redgrave」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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