Steve Redgrave - Life After Rowing

Life After Rowing

In April 2006 he completed his third London Marathon, raising a record £1,800,000 for charity. In April 2008 Redgrave took part in the Olympic Torch relay for the games in Beijing. Redgrave is a supporter of Chelsea Football Club.

Redgrave is commemorated at Burnham Grammar School, Redbridge Community School and Broadlands Science and Engineering School as one of the four houses there. At Linton Village College in Cambridgeshire and Woodcote High School in Croydon, there is a school faculty (house) named after him. He starred in Top Ground Gear Force (although he did not realise until it was too late) for Sport Relief in 2008, where the Top Gear Team (Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond) took on Ground Force with predictable results, and trashed his garden. He launched his own Fairtrade Cotton Brand of Clothing called FiveG which is sold in Debenhams department stores.

He is also involved in starting a Rowing academy in India at Lavasa, the new Hill City being developed near Pune City. In 2010, he was named a Patron of the Jaguar Academy of Sport. In 2012, Redgrave took up kayaking and attempted the Devizes to Westminster marathon kayak race but had to withdraw halfway through due to tiredness. In 2012, Redgrave rowed on the Gloriana as part of the royal pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. That same year he was one of the final torch-bearers for the 2012 Summer Olympics, carrying the torch into the stadium, where the seven young athletes did the honours of lighting the cauldron at the opening ceremony.