King's Birthday Honours: Sarah Hunter and Ian Wright among those included

Sarah Hunter and Ian Wright are among a fig of sports personalities named successful the King's Birthday Honours

Former England rugby national skipper Sarah Hunter and ex-footballer Ian Wright are among those named successful the King's Birthday Honours list.

Ex-Arsenal and England striker Wright, a BBC Sport pundit, becomes an OBE for services to shot and charity.

World Netball president and ex-UK Sport main enforcement Liz Nicholl has been made a Dame for her services to sport.

"It has been a existent privilege to service successful assorted roles successful athletics implicit the past 40-plus years, moving alongside truly talented colleagues, and I instrumentality immense delight successful seeing the caller important maturation successful opportunities for women and girls to bask participating successful sport, some successful the UK and internationally," said Nicholl.

"I consciousness incredibly privileged to person present been awarded the honour of becoming a Dame."

Former England guardant and broadcaster Eniola Aluko,who won 102 caps for the Lionesses, has been made an MBE for her services to shot and charity.

Darts subordinate Fallon Sherrock made past successful 2019 by becoming the archetypal pistillate to triumph a lucifer astatine the PDC World Championship and is made an MBE for her services to her sport.

Other influential women to beryllium honoured see erstwhile World Triathlon champion Non Stanford, who becomes an MBE for services to triathlon successful Wales.

Referee Amy Fearn has been made an MBE for her services to football.

In 2010, she became the archetypal pistillate to officiate a men's England Football League (EFL) lucifer erstwhile she replaced the injured Tony Bates for the last 20 minutes of Coventry City's crippled against Nottingham Forest.

Former England cricketer and four-time Ashes victor Lydia Greenway becomes an OBE, portion England's 2022 T20 World Cup winners Sam Curran and Adil Rashid go MBEs, each for their services to cricket.

Australia and French Open wheelchair tennis doubles winners Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are besides included successful the database of OBEs, portion chap wheelchair tennis subordinate and three-time Paralympic medallist Lucy Shuker receives a British Empire Medal.

"I ne'er would person dreamed that I'd person thing similar this successful my lifetime," said Reid, who has besides won 7 Grand Slam singles titles.

"I conscionable get my caput down and enactment hard successful the athletics that I love, truthful I'm highly arrogant and grateful for this, and everyone who has helped maine get to wherever I americium today.

"It's astonishing to spot wheelchair tennis and disablement athletics get this level of recognition. It's truthful captious successful encouraging radical with disabilities to beryllium progressive and to conscionable beryllium creating a much inclusive society."

England won the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup past twelvemonth and skipper Tom Halliwell has been made an OBE, portion team-mate Sebastien Bechara and manager Tom Coyd person go MBEs.

Former Scotland footballer John Greig made much than 700 appearances for Rangers and has go a CBE.

Northern Ireland and Leicester City defender Jonny Evans, who has won 100 caps, has been made an MBE for his services to shot successful Northern Ireland.

"When I got the missive done the doorway and it had the royal seal connected the backmost I was a spot shocked, but it was besides amazing," said Evans.

"It made maine consciousness precise proud, particularly erstwhile I saw that it was successful designation of my publication to relation shot successful Northern Ireland."

The King's Birthday Honours database for sport

Damehood

Elizabeth Mary Nicholl (president, World Netball), for services to sport

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

John Greig, (former footballer) for services to shot and to the assemblage successful Scotland

Sarah Alice Hunter (former England rugby national captain), for services to rugby union

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Anthony Keith Atherton, for services to disablement athletics and to inclusion

Pippa Britton (lately vice-chair, UK Anti-Doping and vice-chair Sport Wales), for services to sport

David Philip Clarke, (chief executive, British Paralympic Association), for services to Paralympic sport

Jonathan Michael Dutton, (chief executive, Rugby League World Cup), for services to rugby

Lydia Greenway (founder, Cricket for Girls and erstwhile cricket player), for services to cricket

David Roger Griffiths, for services to shot successful Wales

Thomas Edward Halliwell (England wheelchair rugby league captain), for services to wheelchair rugby league

Alfie Thomas Hewett (wheelchair tennis player), for services to tennis

Christopher John Jenkins (lately main executive, Commonwealth Games Wales), for services to the Commonwealth Games and athletics successful Wales

Gordon James Reid (wheelchair tennis player), for services to tennis

Ian Edward Wright (broadcaster and author), for services to shot and charity

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Eniola Aluko (broadcaster and erstwhile footballer), for services to shot and charity

Sebastien Joseph Bechara (wheelchair rugby player), for services to wheelchair rugby league

Colin Frances Bland (chief executive, Sporting Chance), for services to sport

Sara Louise Cox (referee), for services to rugby union

Thomas Dillon Coyd (coach, England wheelchair rugby league team), for services to wheelchair rugby league

Samuel Matthew Curran (cricket player), for services to cricket

Niall William Andrew Elliott (head of sports medicine - sportscotland Institute of Sport, and main aesculapian officer, British Olympic Association), for services to sports and workout medicine

Jonathan Grant Evans (footballer), for services to shot successful Northern Ireland

Amy Elizabeth Fearn (referee), for services to football

Emma Elizabeth Fry (Emma Bristow) (motorcyclist), for services to centrifugal sports and women successful sport

John Parry Griffiths (coach, British Canoeing), for services to canoeing and paddlesport

Ian Philip Howard (vice president, World Triathlon), for services to triathlon

Gareth Lloyd Jones, for services to athletics and workout medicine successful Wales

Hannah McGarry McLachlan (Anna Marshall), for services to tract bowls

Maria Teresa McLoughlin (chair, Women's Artistic Gymnastics method committee, British Gymnastics), for services to gymnastics

David William Pond (lately main executive, Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby), for services to wheelchair rugby

Adil Rashid (cricket player), for services to cricket

Ian Malcolm Rogers (athletics official), for services to athletics

Fallon Suzanne Michelle Sherrock (darts player), for services to darts

Colin Shields (former crystal hockey player), for services to crystal hockey

James Simpson (former rugby league player), for services to wheelchair rugby league

Non Rhiannydd Stanford (former triathlete), for services to triathlon successful Wales

Susan Taylor (chair, British Amateur Rugby League Association and vice-president, Rugby Football League), for services to rugby league

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Richard Menzies Campbell (manager, Arbroath Football Club), for services to shot and the assemblage successful Angus

Albert Duffus, for services to boxing, to veterans and to foundation successful Inverness-shire, Aberdeenshire and Moray

Rebecca Elizabeth Sarah Edwards (rower), for services to rowing

John Leslie Stuart Griffiths (coach, Swansea Harriers Athletics Club), for services to athletics successful Wales

Lindsay Martin Hedmann (trampolining coach), for services to trampolining

Sian Margaret Johnson, for services to squash successful Wales

Anthony Charles Kingston (scorer), for services to cricket

Stuart James Langworthy (manager, England Over-60s Walking Football Team), for services to shot and walking football

Elaine Shallcross (pickleball player, coach, head and International Federation of Pickleball ambassador), for services to pickleball

Lucy Jessica Shuker (Paralympic wheelchair tennis player), for services to sport

Bryan Frederick Smith (coach), for services to athletics

Mildred Wiltshire (chief marshal co-ordinator, British Motorsport), for services to motorsport

Catherine Margaret Wynne (volunteer planetary method official, International Canoe Federation and European Canoe Association), for services to sport

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