Tuesday, November 5, 2024

King’s Birthday Honours: Mark Cavendish given knighthood

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Knighthood

Mark Cavendish (cyclist), for services to cycling and charity work

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Barbara Slater (former director of BBC Sport and gymnast), for services to sports broadcasting

Graeme Souness (broadcaster and former footballer), for services to football and to charity

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Richard Allcroft (president, World Wheelchair Rugby), for services to wheelchair rugby

Wayne Barnes (former rugby referee), for services to rugby union

Karen Carney (broadcaster and former footballer), for services to football

Sandy Lyle (former golfer), for services to golf

Ally McCoist (broadcaster and former footballer), for services to football and to broadcasting

Kevin Miles (chief executive, Football Supporters’ Association), for services to football

Katherine Sciver-Brunt (former cricketer) for services to women’s cricket and to the community in Yorkshire

Martin Slumbers (chief executive officer and secretary, R&A/Royal and Ancient Golf Club), for services to golf

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Jeremy Adams, for services to disability sport

Jennifer Bott (coach), for services to gymnastics

Esther Britten (deputy director, head of major events, UK Sport), for services to sport

Penelope Broomhead (international Para-athletics classifier, World Para-Athletics), for services to international disability sport

Beverley Roy Corry, for services to athletics

Kay Cossington (women’s technical director, Football Association) for services to football

Patrick Duffy, for services to Special Olympics sports and to young people, particularly those with learning disabilities in the Newry and District Gateway club

Cheryl Foster (football referee and former footballer), for services to football and to women’s sport

Stephen Gallacher (golfer), for services to golf

Patricia Gregory (founding member of Women’s Football Association), for services to national and international football and to charity

Elaine Hunniford, for services to young people and to safeguarding in sport

Dr Gerald Lobley, for services to chess in Scotland

Rachel Lynch (chief executive officer, the Community Network CIC and founder, the Urban Factory), for services to young people and to sport in North East England

Ian Martin, for services to sport and to charity

David McNulty (head coach, British Swimming performance centre), for services to swimming

Anita Neil (Olympic athlete), for services to athletics

Lisa O’Keefe (executive director, Sport England Insight), for services to sport

Richard Osborne (sitting volleyball coach), for services to disability sport

Jasmin Paris (ultra runner), for services to fell and long-distance running

John Pearce (council member, Football Association), for services to football

Chris Powell (football coach and former player), for services to football

Rebecca Redfern (swimmer), services to young people and to the community in Worcestershire

Derek Salisbury (chair, Neath Hockey Club), for services to hockey in south Wales

Alexander Steele (honorary life member of The Forty Cricket Club), for services to cricket and to people with interstitial lung disease

Stuart Storey (chair, Lea Recreation Society and chair, Wodson Park Trust), for services to sport and to the community in East Hertfordshire

Dean Stott, for services to sport, and to humanitarian and mental health awareness

Michelle Weltman, for voluntary and charitable services to disability sport and to the LGBTQI sporting community in London

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Brian Adams, for services to young people and sport

Harry Brodie (organiser, Wheelchair Curling Committee Scotland), for services to wheelchair curling

Janice Buckle, for services to Biggleswade Junior Badminton Club, Bedfordshire

David Burgess, for services to junior football in Peterborough

Hazel Burgess, for services to junior football in Peterborough

Catherine Coombs (president, junior coach, manager and child welfare officer, Redland Ladies Hockey Club), for services to hockey in Bristol

Robert Easson (director of rugby, Edinburgh Academical Football Club), for services to Scottish rugby

Ernest Feargrieve (lead race mechanic, Great Britain cycling team), for services to cycling

Linda Forrister, for services to British Gymnastics

Amanda Goth (mountain and hill runner), for voluntary services to the Todmorden Harriers Running Club and Sport Calderdale

Norma Hyde, for services to the Special Olympics, Sandwell

Barrie Jenkins (vice-chair and head bowls coach, Cardiff Chameleons), for services to bowls in Wales

Mervyn Leggett (council member, Football Association), for services to football

Erroll Lutton, for services to hockey

David Matten, for services to Kew Cricket Club

Gordon McDowell, for services to sport and to the community in County Down

David McMath (club secretary and groundsman, Castle Douglas Football Club), for services to football

Jason Oldfield, for services to the Kirkham and Wesham Cricket Club, Preston, Lancashire

Richard Quayle, for services to the Isle of Man Road Races

Neil Parsons (boxing coach), for services to sport

Mark Portsmouth, for services to sport in Mumbles, Swansea

John Rodgers (secretary, St Patrick’s Former Players Football Club), for services to football

Audrey Taylor, for services to amateur swimming in East Sussex

Antony Ward (swimming technical official), for services to swimming and Para-swimming

Robert White, for services to football and to charity in North Belfast

Sharon Wood (chair, technical committee, British Gymnastics), for services to trampoline gymnastics

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