17 Jun 2011

Honours for the sport and recreation sector

Honours for the sport and recreation sector news article image

Athletes, coaches, administrators and volunteers are among those from the sports and recreation world named in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Knighthoods for trainer Sir Henry Cecil, and Sir David Higgins of the ODA head the list, with OBE's awarded to David Sparks, chief executive of British Swimming, John Amaechi and Jane Ashworth, chief executive of StreetGames.

The full list is available here. 

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