Here is a list (in no particular order) of 15 sports people Sussex can be proud of - whether they are born in the county or live here. Who else would you include in this list?
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Top sports people from Sussex
. Kristina Cook - Findon
Won golds at the World Championships and European Championships and silver at the 2012 London Olympics and many other medals in various championships since 1995.
. Tom Mitchell - Cuckfield
Captained England Sevens Rugby team to silver medal at the Rio Olympics and bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
. Clare Connor CBE - Brighton
Captained the England Cricket team and is now director of Cricket for the ECB. Claire was also the first woman to play for the all-star charity side Lashings World XI.
. Derek Bell - Pagham
He won the Le Mans 24 hours five times, the Daytona 24 three times and the World Sportscar Championship twice. He also raced in Formula One for the Ferrari, Wheatcroft, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno teams.
. Holly Colvin - Chichester
Youngest person to play Test cricket (of either sex) for England
. Joe Marler - Eastbourne
Rugby prop who has made 200 appearance sfor Harlequins and 66 caps for England
13. John Wisden - Brighton
Played 187 first class matches for Kent, Middlesex and Sussex taking 1,109 wickets including 39 10-wicket matches. He is now best known for launching the eponymous Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864, the year after he retired from first-class cricket
14. Steve Ovett - Brighton
Won Gold in the 800m and bronze in the 1500m at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, also won gold at the 1978 European Championships in Prague and the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
15. Alan Minter - Crawley
The boxer held the undisputed middleweight title in 1980, having previously held the British middleweight title from 1975 to 1976, and the European middleweight title twice between 1977 and 1979