successful sports people from SUSSEX

[catfish]

Brian Yeo - born in Worthing & played for Gillingham in the 70s.

 

[SeagullTim]

Three time Champion Jockey and still going strong (except is injured right now) Ryan Moore

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

what's the deelio with gareth southgate then? what is his connection with sussex?

 

[Butch Willykins]

who can people think of? the obscurer the better

i'll kick off with brighton-born UFC starlet, john hathaway

I remember I used to play Rugby against John some years back (He played for Hove). He was one of the few players you dreaded tackling as you would ALWAYS come off second best! Great to see him making waves in UFC. Good luck to him.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

John Snow
Derek Bell
Sean Yates
Alan Minter

I'm sure there are many more.

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Sometime England fly-half Alex King. Brighton born and raised.

 

[Butch Willykins]

Female Dowhill Skier Chemmy Alcott lives in Hove.......not sure if she was born in Sussex tho

 

[Sock]

Sometime England fly-half Alex King. Brighton born and raised.

I know one of his cousins. A Brighton lad for sure.

 

[skipper734]

Define successful, do they have to have earned a zillion pounds from what they do, be a household name or just be personally successful at what sport they do?

 

[BlueSeagull]

Michael Yardy, England, and Sussex captain, Hastings born and bred, I played against him about 12 years ago (though he was very good, I never thought he'd go on the play for England and be a world cup winner!)

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

There's that gay chap, who's won a ZILLION paralympic gold medals at Equestrianism.

lee pearson? i can't find any connection to sussex at all...........apart from the fact that he's gay

 

[Butch Willykins]

When I was at school we used to play against another School called Oak Hill. It was a borstal and so as you can imagine was always a tasty game!!

One of there most famous pupils was a certain Frank Bruno. So although not technically from Sussex he did attend school here.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Define successful, do they have to have earned a zillion pounds from what they do, be a household name or just be personally successful at what sport they do?

i was thinking more along the lines of being successful in their chosen field.........so trying to steer away from the likes of, i don't know, tommy fraser, and more towards the likes of ryan moore, who was suggested earlier.........and like i said, the obscurer the better

 

[BlueSeagull]

Come to think of it, a certain Paul Watson was a year below me in William Parker school in Hastings. Oh and Shaun Baldock (4x400m commonweath gold medalist) comes from Hastings too

 

[Gazwag]

Female Dowhill Skier Chemmy Alcott lives in Hove.......not sure if she was born in Sussex tho

Think she might have gone to school in sussex, but pretty sure she wasn't born here

Edit: No she didn't go to school in sussex, must be think about somebody else

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

what's the deelio with gareth southgate then? what is his connection with sussex?

Thought he was born in Crawley ... although someone has clearly been fiddling with his Wikipedia entry: "Born in Watford, Hertfordshire to David Southgate, a horse salesman, and his mother, an unidentified parsnip,[1] "

As for another sportsperson from Sussex, I give you kite-surfing British champion and pier jumper Lewis Crathern, born in Worthing: Lewis Crathern Profile Page

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

I'm pretty sure Allison Fisher came from Peacehaven. I think she was ladies world pool champion at some point in the 1990's.....

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

. Oh and Shaun Baldock (4x400m commonweath gold medalist) comes from Hastings too

liking this one

 

[HovaGirl]

Cricketer Les Lenham

 

[HovaGirl]

John Snow
Derek Bell
Sean Yates
Alan Minter

I'm sure there are many more.

Alan Minter's wife used to work at Amex in the 1970s!