King's Birthday Honours 2023: Former triathlon world champion Non Stanford made MBE
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Non Stanford was crowned triathlon world champion in 2013
Former World Triathlon champion Non Stanford has been made an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours.
The 34-year-old from Bridgend, who retired from competition in October 2022, was ITU Under-23 world champion in 2012 before taking the senior title a year later.
Stanford won silver for Wales in the mixed triathlon relay at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
She followed that with gold at the 2022 European Championships in Munich.
Stanford now works as a coach with British Triathlon in Leeds.
"It's quite surreal and a bit ironic for me to be recognised for my contribution to triathlon when I always thought I had taken so much from the sport which has enriched my life," she told Radio Wales Breakfast.
"As an athlete I struggled slightly because I always felt it was such a selfish pursuit that I wasn't really contributing to society. So this [award] perhaps settles a few of those demons."
Dr Gareth Jones also receives an MBE for services to sport and exercise medicine in Wales.
Wales receives three OBEs, with Pippa Britton, lately vice-chair UK Anti-Doping and vice-chair Sport Wales, for services to sport, David Griffiths, for services to football, and Chris Jenkins, lately Commonwealth Games Wales chief executive officer, all honoured.
Swansea Harriers Athletics Club coach John Griffiths and Sian Margaret Johnson, for services to squash in Wales, receive BEMs.