At which Olympics did Steve Redgrave win his fifth consecutive Olympic rowing gold medal?
Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave (born 23 March 1962) is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.
In Sydney Olympics of 2000, he won his fifth consecutive gold medal and retired from the sport. In August 2000, prior to his final Olympic Games, the BBC broadcast "Gold Fever", a three-part BBC documentary which had followed the coxless four in the years leading up to the Olympics. It included video diaries recording the highs and lows in the quest for gold. At the medal ceremony after the 2000 Summer Olympics he was also presented with a gold Olympic pin by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch in recognition of his achievement
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