Tom Bosworth and Joslyn Hoyte-Smith awarded an MBE

Tom Bosworth and Joslyn Hoyte-Smith have been rewarded with MBEs within the King’s New Yr honours checklist for his or her athletics exploits.

The 2 retired athletes each gained Commonwealth Video games medals and competed within the Olympic Video games throughout their careers.

Bosworth, 33, was sixth within the Olympic 20km race in Rio in 2016 and likewise competed within the Tokyo Video games. On the 2018 Commonwealth Video games he completed runner-up representing England behind Dane Fowl-Smith of Australia.

The Tonbridge athlete set the British document for 20km of 79:38 in these 2018 Video games. What’s extra, he set world bests within the mile and 3000m open air and indoors. As well as he was seventh within the 20km on the 2019 World Championships earlier than retiring in 2022.

Tom Bosworth (Mark Shearman)

Bosworth acquired his MBE for companies to race strolling whereas Hoyte-Smith was honoured for companies to athletics.

As an athlete Hoyte-Smith gained Olympic 4x400m bronze in 1980 and Commonwealth 400m bronze in 1982. She additionally completed simply outdoors the medals within the 4x400m on the 1984 Olympics after anchoring the GB group to fourth place and gained a number of British titles.

Her 400m finest of fifty.75 set at Crystal Palace in 1982 nonetheless locations her thirteenth on the UK all-time rankings, whereas since retiring from the observe she has labored in anti-doping, in para-athletics and for the English Institute of Sport. The 69-year-old can be chair of the GB Olympians.

In what was in any other case a comparatively small variety of awards for the game of athletics in these newest New Yr honours, Dean McNeilly of Newcastle AC acquired a BEM for companies to athletics in Northern Eire whereas Rick Townsend from Milton Keynes AC additionally earned a BEM for companies to sport and the communities in Milton Keynes and South Yorkshire.

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