Sarah Stevenson

Sarah Stevenson is a British taekwondo athlete born in Doncaster in 1983. She was the first British taekwondo world champion, winning the world title in 2001, and won it again in 2011 despite losing both parents to cancer in the previous year. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics she took Britain's first Olympic taekwondo medal, a bronze, after an appeal overturned a judging error that had eliminated her in the quarter-finals. She took the athletes' oath at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Games, retired from competition in 2013 and moved into coaching with the Great Britain team.