MBEs for services to athletics for KJT, Asher-Smith and Hodgkinson, as athletes Hannah Cockroft, Sammy Kinghorn and Sabrina Fortune are also awarded.
Keeley Hodgkinson, Dina Usher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson have been awarded MBEs in the King’s New Year’s Honors List.
The trio have all won world titles before, with Hodgkinson taking Olympic gold this year.
“It’s so amazing to be recognized and awarded this year,” said the 800m runner.
Johnson-Thompson won world heptathlon gold in 2019 and 2023, and she was rewarded a year after she won Olympic silver in Paris.
Perhaps the most overdue accolade was Geraldine Rachel Usher-Smith (or Dina for short) as she won the world 200m title in 2019 and is the British record holder for the 100m and 200m.
Hannah Cockcroft (Getty)
Wheelchair racers Hannah Cockroft and Sammy Kinghorn have both been honored in the past, but in this latest list Cockcroft is now a CBE, while Kinghorn has been awarded an OBE.
Paralympian Sabrina Fortune was also awarded an MBE after winning gold in the F20 shooting in Paris.
Sabrina Fortune (Getty)
More than 1,200 awardees are being honored this year across all sectors, particularly praising role models in sports, health, academics and voluntary service.
Among them were Sandra Hardacre, who was honored for her volunteer work in Scottish Athletics, and Mervyn Thompson, director of the Portrush event in Northern Ireland, was also recognized for services to the local community.
There were also awards for former athletes. Among them was Helen Glover, the Olympic rowing champion who ran for England as a teenage sprinter, as she received an OBE.
The full Christmas gift list has been released gov.uk:. Anyone can nominate someone for the honor. If you know someone who has achieved fantastic things that deserves recognition, go ahead gov.uk/honours to learn more about how you can promote them.
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