Matthew Pinsent
Four times Olympic gold medalist Sir Matthew Pinsent is one of Great Britain’s most successful and highest profile athletes of all time. In 1992 Matthew graduated in Geography from St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Rowing Club. Also in 1992, at the age of...
Mark Spitz
Mark Spitz is one of the greatest living sports legends and most remembered by his astonishing win of seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Until the 2008 Games, Spitz held the record for the most Olympic Gold medals during one Olympics by a single Olympiad....
Linford Christie
Undoubtedly Europe’s greatest ever 100m sprinter, Linford Christie became the Olympic 100m Champion after winning the Gold Medal in Barcelona, 1992. In an International career spanning seventeen years, Linford competed over 60 times for his country and won more major championship medals, 23, than any other British sprinter. Linford...
Clive Woodward
Sir Clive Woodward was the manager of of the England Rugby team and is in constant demand as one the country’s leading motivational speakers. Clive Woodward was educated at HMS Conway in Anglesey. On leaving school he attended Loughborough University where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in...
David Coulthard
David Coulthard is one of the most successful British drivers in the history of Formula One. He is currently F1 co-presenter and sporting pundit for the BBC. David joined Red Bull Racing in 2005 and announced his retirement from F1 in 2008 after his fourteenth F1 season, with 13...
Michael Owen
England’s youngest ever goal scorer, Michael Owen has carved out an impressive career for himself. Enjoying his most prolific years whilst playing for his boyhood club of Liverpool, Owen received the coveted Ballon d’Or in 2001 for his magnificent performances for club and country, eventually amassing 89 senior international...
Steve McMahon
Steve McMahon was Kenny Dalglish’s fi rst signing as Liverpool manager in September 1985 and went on to win three league titles and two FA Cups with the Reds. All in all, combative mid elder McMahon played 277 games for the Reds, scoring 50 times. Bob Paisley perhaps encapsulated Steve’s dynamism...
Mark Beaumont
Mark Beaumont first made fame aged 23 for an 18,000 mile round-the-world bike race, where he smashed the previous World Record by a staggering 82 days. In 2015 Beaumont rode the length of Africa at a pace of 160 miles a day, taking 18 days off the previous record....
Deniz Ulke Aribogan
Deniz Ulke Aribogan is a Professor of International Relations at Istanbul University and a Senior Fellow of CRIC (Center for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict) at the University of Oxford. She was previously the Rector of Bahcesehir University from 2007-10. She lectures at Istanbul University, Istanbul Bilgi University, the Turkish...
Sebastian Coe
Lord Coe is Chairman of IAAF – International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Using all his political skills and strategic know-how, he famously led the bid to host the world’s biggest sporting event in 2012. It was the same determination that had earlier helped him become one of the...
