Tell us about the time you met a famous sportsperson!

They say never meet your heroes, and while that can sometimes be true, other times it can be a fulfilling experience as they turn out to be lovely human beings. No matter how your encounter went, we want to hear about the time you met a famous sportsperson!

Any sport and any level of fame is valid here, although you can't just choose your mate who plays for a Sunday league football team when you met them at the pub last weekend. Tell us about the encounter in at least 50 words of original writing or video to win a prize!

Note: If you've never met a famous sportsperson, we'll accept a retelling of a time your family member or friend met one. However, if we receive more entries than rewards, we'll favour first-person stories for the prizes.

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Created at 3:18pm, 31st July, 2024. Page last updated at 10:18am, 13th August, 2024.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 12th August, 2024.

Submissions (11)

Asim8/12/2024

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I definitely, and I mean I definitely did not travel to Sheffield from Manchester, wait outside a hotel until 2 in the morning, realise he was not there then drive to leeds from 2am-3.30am. I DID NOT sleep at my car in a service station, I did not wake up at 5.30am, finish the drive to leeds. Wait outside a hotel in Leeds at 6am and I definitely did not meet my hero daniel bryan, who did not autograph his new york times seller book for me, he did not chat for me for 1 minute and he did not take a photo with me and I do have a video of the whole interaction... OR DID I

I really wanted to meet Daniel Bryan ey,

Gaypengwing 🔜 Ren Faire Uk8/12/2024

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I remember when I was around 7/8, I went to watch Liverpool vs Exeter City in Exeter and after the match, my dad and I waited in the rain to try and see the players leaving the stadium.

A lot of them walked past quickly to get out of the rain (understandably) even if they said hi, but one stopped, talked to us and even signed my programme. Andy Carroll, to this day I will always remember how much that meant to little me.

Shovel8/12/2024

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I met a wrestler called CM Punk - not sure if you’ve heard of him? I was in London for the massive AEW All In PPV at Wembley Stadium last year 2023, and I was just walking around Wembley, getting some food and my partner saw punk just walking around. We politely asked if we could take a picture and he said sure! He was super nice and friendly and made sure to tell him that I can’t wait for the show later that day. How mad that one of the biggest names in wrestling was just casually walking around??

Josh B8/11/2024

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Back when I did track and field, our running club did club competitions, putting each athlete in their respective age group against each other.

My first win came at under 13 level and at our presentation night, our sprint coach managed to pull some strings and get none other than Darren Campbell to come along, with his Olympic relay gold medal. Quite the surprise and an amazing moment to receive a medal from an olympian and all round nice guy!

Apologies for the picture quality, I can't find the original and the only copy I have is on my 30th birthday card 😂

TheGreatestBanana128/10/2024

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Whilst I was in school every one had the chance meet Dame Kelly Holmes as she was invited to a sporting event at the school, she done a talk and also presented the sports awards to the winners of the sports, though I was never any good at sports so I did not win one of those. Still it was nice to meet her not long after she had won medals at the Olympics.