Clare Balding
English broadcaster
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| 2023 | Balding became BBC's lead presenter for Wimbledon. |
| 2022 | Presented at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. |
| 2022 | Balding was selected to be the BBC's lead presenter for Wimbledon, succeeding Sue Barker who retired the previous year. |
| 2022 | Clare Balding was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to sport and charity. |
| December 2022 | Clare Balding completed her two-year term as President of the Rugby Football League. |
| July 2020 | Clare Balding was appointed as the 30th President of the Rugby Football League, succeeding former footballer Tony Adams. |
| 2017 | Balding was involved in a copy-control controversy regarding an interview she gave to Saga magazine, which led to the journalist Ginny Dougary removing her byline from the piece. |
| July 2017 | Clare Balding's episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' was first broadcast, revealing her family's historical connections and her great-grandfather's hidden sexuality. |
| 2016 | The Clare Balding Show, her sports chat show that aired on BT Sport and BBC Two, last aired. |
| 2015 | Clare Balding became an ambassador for Southampton FC's official charity, the Saints Foundation. |
| 2015 | In 2015, she received the First Women Awards Lifetime Achievement. |
| 2015 | She began presenting Today at Wimbledon for the BBC. |
| April 2015 | Clare Balding married Alice Arnold in a private ceremony. |
| 2014 | Balding was made an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge in 2014. |
| 2014 | Clare Balding was named in the top 10 on the World Pride Power list. |
| 2014 | Balding was recognized as the British Equestrian Federation Outstanding Journalist of the Year in 2014. |
| 2014 | Clare Balding publicly backed Hacked Off and its campaign for UK press self-regulation. |
| September 2014 | Balding released her second book, Walking Home: My Family and Other Ramblings. |
| 2013 | Became a senior presenter on Channel 4 Racing, primarily covering major festivals like Cheltenham and Royal Ascot. |
| 2013 | To mark the centenary of Emily Wilding Davison's fatal intervention in the 1913 Derby, Balding presented a documentary about Davison for Channel 4 titled Secrets of the Suffragettes. |
| 2013 | Balding won the award for Sports Presenter at the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards in 2013. |
| 2013 | She presented a BBC documentary about the Queen entitled The Queen – a Passion for Horses. |
| 2013 | In 2013, Balding was presented with the special BAFTA for her work on the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. |
| 2013 | Clare Balding was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting and journalism. |
| 2013 | In 2013, she was awarded the TRIC Sports Presenter of the Year. |
| 2013 | In February 2013, Balding was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. |
| January 2013 | Balding began hosting the Good Morning Sunday program on BBC Radio 2, a role she continued until November 2017. |
| January 2013 | Balding began hosting a Saturday night quiz show for BBC One called Britain's Brightest. |
| 2012 | Balding won the Royal Television Society's 'Presenter' award in 2012. |
| 2012 | Balding won an achievement award from the UK chapter of Women in Film and Television in 2012 for her coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics. |
| 2012 | Clare Balding's memoir, 'My Animals and Other Family', won the National Book Award for 'Autobiography of the Year'. |
| 2012 | She was awarded the 2012 Sports Journalists' Association's annual British Sports Journalism Award for Sports Broadcaster of the Year (BBC and Channel 4). |
| 2012 | Balding was a lead presenter on Channel 4's Summer Paralympics TV coverage. |
| 2012 | Balding received the Attitude Awards TV Personality of the Year in 2012. |
| October 2012 | She appeared before an All Party Parliamentary Group on women's sport alongside notable figures such as Katherine Grainger and Tanni Grey-Thompson. |
| September 2012 | Clare Balding published her autobiography entitled My Animals and Other Family, which reached Number One in The Sunday Times Bestseller list. |
| March 2012 | Presented 'Sport and the British', a thirty-part radio series on BBC Radio 4 exploring sports' impact on British life. |
| August 2011 | Temporarily joined BBC's Countryfile, co-hosting with Matt Baker while replacing Julia Bradbury during her maternity leave. |
| 2010 | Balding presented a BBC TV series called Britain By Bike, retracing some of Harold Briercliffe's British cycle tours. |
| 2010 | Clare Balding made a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over an article by A. A. Gill that she felt mocked her sexuality and appearance, which the PCC found in her favour. |
| 2010 | Clare Balding became a patron of the British Thyroid Foundation. |
| 2010 | She started presenting coverage of The Boat Race for the BBC. |
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