Sports stars from Rio Ferdinand to Moeen Ali to Mark Selby awarded in Queen’s Birthday Honours List

The Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been revealed and, as ever, there have been a range of sports stars hailed for services to their chosen disciplines.

It is not just sports stars, with Clare Balding and Tracey Couch awarded CBEs for services to broadcasting and public service respectively thanks to their connection to sport.

Footballers like Rio Ferdinand, Gareth Bale and Luter Blissett will pick up medals, while everything from snooker, to curling to trampolining have also been recognised.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Clare Victoria Balding (broadcaster), for services to sport and charity

Tracey Crouch MP (former sports minister), for parliamentary and public service

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Moeen Ali (cricketer), for services to cricket

Richard Harrison Bevan (chief executive of League Managers Association), for services to football

Luther Loide Blissett (ex-footballer and patron, Sporting Memories), for services to football and to charity

Lora Marie Fachie (cyclist), for services to cycling

Neil Michael Fachie (cyclist), for services to cycling

Rio Gavin Ferdinand (pundit and ex-footballer), for services to football and to charity

David Peter Hadfield (president, Boccia International Sports Federation), for services to sport

Corinne Claire Hall (cyclist), for services to cycling

Hugh Morris (chief executive, Glamorgan County Cricket Club), for services to cricket and to charity

Eve Muirhead (skip, British Olympic Curling Team), for services to curling

Sean O’Loughlin (rugby league player), for services to rugby league

Professor Nicholas Sheridan Peirce, (chief medical officer, England and Wales Cricket Board), for services to sport during Covid-19

Michael Summerbee (ex-footballer), for