Olympic gold medallist and Gerrards Cross resident Denise Lewis OBE has been awarded a damehood for services to sport in the 2023 New Year Honours List.
The 50-year-old former track and field athlete is the current president of the Commonwealth Games England and rose to national prominence after becoming the first European to win a gold medal in the heptathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
She was also a two-time gold medallist in the Commonwealth Games, and since retiring from athletics, has gone on to have a prominent media career.
She regularly appears on the BBC’s coverage of the Olympics as a pundit and also took part in Strictly Come Dancing and The Masked Dancer.
Her sporting achievements remain entrenched in the national memory, and she is included among the country’s “golden girls” of athletics, alongside her peers Dame Kelly Holmes, Christine Ohuruogu and Paula Radcliffe.
In a statement posted on their official Twitter account, Team GB said: “Congratulations to all Olympians recognised in the New Year Honours List!
“A special shoutout to DAME Denise Lewis!”
Elsewhere, David Palmer-Jones, who works as a consultant at Chalfont St Peter-based DPJ Environmental Ltd, has been awarded an Order of the British Empire for services to recycling, in reference to his former role as chief executive of waste management company Suez Recycling and Recovery UK.
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