Well-earned MBEs for services to athletics for KJT, Asher-Smith and Keely Hodgkinson as para athletes Hannah Cockroft, Sammi Kinghorn and Sabrina Fortune are also honoured
Keely Hodgkinson, Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson have been rewarded with an MBE in the King’s new year honours list.
The trio have all won global titles in the past with Keely Hodgkinson taking Olympic gold this year.
Keely Hodgkinson Honoured for Exceptional Achievements in Athletics
“It’s so amazing to be recognised and to have been given this award,” said the 800m runner. “This year has been incredibly special for so many reasons and it’s such a nice surprise to have been honoured in this way. Bring on 2025.”
Johnson-Thompson won world heptathlon gold in 2019 and 2023 and she has been honoured after a year that saw her win Olympic silver in Paris.
Perhaps the most overdue reward was for Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith (or Dina for short), as she won a world 200m title in 2019 and is the British record-holder for 100m and 200m.
Hannah Cockroft (Getty)
Wheelchair racing Hannah Cockroft and Sammi Kinghorn have both been honoured in the past but in this latest list Cockroft is now a CBE while Kinghorn has been given an OBE.
Fellow Paralympian Sabrina Fortune has also been awarded an MBE after winning gold in Paris in the F20 shot put.
Sabrina Fortune (Getty)
More than 1200 recipients receive honours this year across all sectors, with particular commendation to role models in sport, healthcare, academia and voluntary service.
These include Sandra Hardacre, who was honoured for her services to volunteering in Scottish athletics. Mervyn Thompson, parkrun director of the Portrush event in Northern Ireland, has also been recognised for services in the local community.
Former Athletes Recognised in New Year Honours List
There were honours for former athletes too. These included Helen Glover, the Olympic rowing champion who ran for England as a teenage cross-country runner, as she received an OBE.
The full new year honours list is published on gov.uk. Anyone can nominate someone for an honour. If you know someone who has achieved fantastic things worthy of recognition, go to gov.uk/honours to find out more about how you can put them forward.
Keely Hodgkinson and Fellow Champions Honoured with MBEs
Olympics 800m boss Keely Hodgkinson’s astounding year has finished in style subsequent to being respected by England’s Above all else Charles.
Keely Hodgkinson, as of late delegated the BBC Sports Character of the Year, has been designated Individual from the Request for the English Domain (MBE) by Ruler Charles in his New Year Respects list for her commitment to games.
The 22-year-old Manchester-conceived competitor turned into the principal gold Olympics gold medallist from the track for Extraordinary England since Mo Farah in 2016 in the wake of ground surface her adversaries to guarantee gold in Paris in front of Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma and Kenya’s Mary Moraa, the title holder.
Being perceived and considering this award is so astonishing. This year has been unquestionably exceptional for such countless reasons and it’s a particularly decent shock to have been respected along these lines. Welcome on 2025,” said a pleased Keely Hodgkinson.
Previous title holders Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson additionally got MBE grants.
Asher-Smith, the 2019 best on the planet in 200m, is England’s quickest lady as she is the English record holder in both 100m and 200m while Johnson-Thompson won the world heptathlon gold in 2019 and 2023 preceding guaranteeing silver at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
It has been an amazing year for Keely Hodgkinson, who remained unbeaten all through her season in transit to her Olympics brilliance, after which a physical issue constrained her out from the remainder of the mission as she passed up the Precious stone Association title.
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