The Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been revealed and, as ever, there have been a range of sports stars hailed for services to their chosen disciplines.
It is not just sports stars, with Clare Balding and Tracey Couch awarded CBEs for services to broadcasting and public service respectively thanks to their connection to sport.
Footballers like Rio Ferdinand, Gareth Bale and Luter Blissett will pick up medals, while everything from snooker, to curling to trampolining have also been recognised.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Clare Victoria Balding (broadcaster), for services to sport and charity
Tracey Crouch MP (former sports minister), for parliamentary and public service
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Moeen Ali (cricketer), for services to cricket
Richard Harrison Bevan (chief executive of League Managers Association), for services to football
Luther Loide Blissett (ex-footballer and patron, Sporting Memories), for services to football and to charity
Lora Marie Fachie (cyclist), for services to cycling
Neil Michael Fachie (cyclist), for services to cycling
Rio Gavin Ferdinand (pundit and ex-footballer), for services to football and to charity
David Peter Hadfield (president, Boccia International Sports Federation), for services to sport
Corinne Claire Hall (cyclist), for services to cycling
Hugh Morris (chief executive, Glamorgan County Cricket Club), for services to cricket and to charity
Eve Muirhead (skip, British Olympic Curling Team), for services to curling
Sean O’Loughlin (rugby league player), for services to rugby league
Professor Nicholas Sheridan Peirce, (chief medical officer, England and Wales Cricket Board), for services to sport during Covid-19
Michael Summerbee (ex-footballer), for services to football and to charity
Karen Margaret Tonge (chair, Para Table Tennis), for services to table tennis
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Gareth Frank Bale (footballer), for services to football and to charity
Ghazain Choudhury (wheelchair basketballer), for services to wheelchair basketball
Jennifer Carmichael Dodds (curler), for services to curling
Hailey Caitlin Rose Duff (curler), for services to curling
William Robert Leckie Duncan (curler), for services to curling and to charity
Thomas Scott Dyson (chief coach, Paralympic Pathway, British Rowing), for services to Paralympic rowing
Gary Kenneth Hall (Performance Director, British Taekwondo), for services to taekwondo
Benjamin Robert Hawes (chair, Athletes Commission, British Olympic Association), for services to sport
Elizabeth Ellen Hughes (director of special projects, Sport England), for services to sport during Covid-19
Samantha May Kinghorn (para-athlete), for services to disability sport
Shirley McCay (hockey player), for services to hockey and to the community in Northern Ireland
Hannah Lousie Miley (swimmer), for services to swimming and to women in sport
Dr Ian Stuart Miller (lately chief medical officer, British Paralympic Association), for services to Paralympic Sport
James Philip Milner (footballer), for services to football and charity
David Matthew Murdoch (head coach, British Curling Team), for services to curling
Verity Leigh Naylor (director of operations, British Paralympic Association), for services to Paralympic sport
Alan Rough (ex-footballer), for services to football and to charity in Scotland
Eilish Rutherford (para-hockey player), for services to sport and to charity in Northern Ireland
Andrew Peter Ryan (executive director, Association of Summer Olympic International Federations), for services to sport
Douglas Gordon Samuel, (lately chief executive officer, Spartans Community Football Academy). For services to Association Football and to the community in North Edinburgh
Georgina Claire Seccombe (Harland) (chef de mission, Team GB, Olympic Games 2021), for services to Olympic sport
Mark Selby (snooker player), for services to snooker and to charity
Neil Douglas Hamilton Simpson (para-alpine skier), for services to skiing
Andrew William Ramsay Simpson (para-alpine skier), for services to skiing
Mili Smith (curler), for services to curling
Stephen Connell Stewart (director of sport and exercise, University of St Andrews), for services to sport
Judd Trump (snooker), for services to snooker and to charity
Anwar Uddin, (Fans For Diversity campaign manager, The Football Supporters’ Association), for services to association football
Georgina Astrid Usher, (British Fencing chief executive), for services to fencing (London)
Tracy Whittaker-Smith (head national coach, Trampoline, British Gymnastics), for services to trampolining
David Brynmor Williams (ex-rugby union player), for services to sport and to charity in Wales
Victoria Wright (curler), for services to curling
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