Which olympians went to private school

While the proportional of privately educated athletes in Team GB was higher than London — 28 per cent up from 20 — the number of state-educated people who came home with medals has grown. Last month Sir Steve Redgrave commented that privately educated children have a better chance of becoming Olympic athletes.

Ten of the 13 British representatives to win more than one medal were state-educated, including gold winning Olympians Mo Farah and Adam Peaty. What a fantastic swim from our former student!! World champion tennis player Andy Murray also attended a state school - Dunblane High School — before moving to prestigious Schiller International School in Barcelona, Spain at the age of We are proud to have other students who are showing exceptional sporting talent in windsurfing, javelin and race-walking.

But what has changed is the way schools like ours — just like the traditional independent schools — now see it as part of our mission to support talented students through mentoring, flexible timetabling, and better links with their all-important coaches.

Millfield, a co-educational independent school, had eight former pupils competing at the Olympics, five of them in Team GB, cementing a growing Olympic tradition at the school where facilities include an Olympic-sized swimming pool and an equestrian centre. Helen Glover rowing , James Guy swimming and Ollie Lindsay-Hague rugby sevens came home with four medals between them.

An incredible achievement. But there are still some Olympic sports that remain dominated by the privately educated. An Old Etonian has won a medal at every Olympic Games since , in either rowing or an equestrian sport. Related research. For some that might be mathematics, for many others it's in different avenues of sport.

Maw acknowledged that Millfield's pupils benefited from "sensational" facilities but said this was only part of the story.

You can still learn and be enthusiastic with modest facilities. Education Schools Teachers Universities Students.