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'''Sir Stephen Geoffrey Redgrave''', [[CBE]], or less formally '''Steve Redgrave''', (born [[23 March]] [[1962]] in [[Marlow, Buckinghamshire|Marlow]], [[England]]), is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[rowing|rower]] who won a gold medal at five consecutive [[Olympic Games]] from [[1984]] to [[2000]], as well as an additional bronze medal in 1988. As the only Briton ever to achieve this feat, he is widely considered to be Britain's greatest Olympian. Only four other Olympians achieved the same: [[Pál Kovács]], [[Aladar Gerevich|Aladár Gerevich]], [[Reiner Klimke]] and [[Birgit Fischer]]. Redgrave also won a bronze medal with Holmes in the coxed pairs in 1988. He has won nine Rowing World Championship gold medals.

His feats in the last four years of his career are even more outstanding if it is taken into account that Redgrave has been suffering from [[ulcerative colitis]] and, since [[1997]], [[diabetes]] causing unforeseeable bouts of fatigue when rowing.