Sharron Davies: Age, Husband, Gladiator Name and Olympic Silver

Sharron Davies stood on an Olympic starting block for the first time at 13, and she was still a teenager when she collected silver in Moscow. Decades later, she is in the news again — as an author, a campaigner for women’s sport, and a member of the House of Lords.

Olympic medals: 1 silver ·
Olympic debut: 1976 ·
Best Olympic result: Silver, 400m individual medley (1980) ·
Current title: Baroness Davies of Devonport MBE ·
Current public role: Women’s Sports Union UK advocate and author of Unfair Play

Nine biographical facts, one pattern: the record is rock-solid on competitive results and notably quiet on personal statistics.

What happened to Sharron Davies?

The short answer: Davies did not disappear after the Olympics — she changed lanes. Her official biography describes a post-swimming career in television, broadcasting and public speaking, and records her retirement from competitive swimming in 1994 (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile). By January 2026, ITV News was reporting that the former Olympic swimmer and women’s campaigner was joining the red benches of the House of Lords (ITV News, regional news outlet).

What is Sharron Davies doing now?

• Advocate: supports fair and safe sport for women and girls through the Women’s Sports Union UK (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile)
• Author: wrote Unfair Play (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile)
• Presenter: works as a public speaker and awards host (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile)
• Trainer: runs a personal-training service online (Wiltshire Live, local news site)

The Women’s Sports Union UK is the anchor of her current advocacy. Her official site describes the group as a not-for-profit organisation focused on fair and safe sport for women and girls (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile). ITV News used the phrase “women’s campaigner” when it covered her move to the Lords, which tells you how her public role has shifted since the medal podiums (ITV News, regional news outlet).

The thread running through all of it is sport: competing, broadcasting, writing and campaigning.

Where does Sharron Davies live now?

• Reported base: Wiltshire (Wiltshire Live, local news site)

Wiltshire Live has described Davies as a Wiltshire resident. Her exact address is not part of the public record, and her official biography does not publish one.

How much is Sharron Davies worth?

• Net worth: not disclosed in official biographies or in any of the sources cited here

The absence is the answer. Search results are full of estimated figures, but none of the verified sources — her official biography, the broadcast archive, or the news coverage — states a net worth. Treat any specific number as an estimate, not a fact.

The pattern: Davies has turned one sporting career into several public ones, and the verified record is emphatically about work, not wealth.

Is Sharron Davies still married to Derek Redmond?

No. The marriage to Derek Redmond ended, and no cited source describes them as currently married. Redmond is the British athlete identified as Davies’s former husband (Wikipedia, encyclopedia entry).

The question keeps surfacing because Redmond is a famous name in British athletics in his own right. The documented answer is simpler than the search results suggest: former husband, not current partner.

Who was Sharron Davies’s first husband?

• First husband: Derek Redmond, British athlete (Wikipedia, encyclopedia entry)

The official biography does not expand on her marriages, which is why this corner of the record stays thin. The cited sources agree that Redmond and Davies were married and later separated.

How many children has Sharron Davies got?

• Children: three, according to her official biography (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile)

Her official biography describes her as a mother of three. The other sources cited in this article do not state a family count, so the disciplined phrasing is “according to the official biography”, not a definitive census.

Why this matters: the family questions are the ones where the record is thinnest, so they are exactly where rumours take root.

Was Sharron Davies a gladiator?

Yes — and the role is one of the most misremembered parts of her career. Davies joined ITV’s Gladiators in 1995 as a character named Amazon (TV Newsroom, broadcast media archive).

What was Sharron Davies’s Gladiator name?

• Gladiator name: Amazon (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile)

The official biography confirms the character name directly: Amazon — not “Amazonia”, and not the show title “Gladiator” (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile). The distinction matters because fan discussions and old TV listings keep swapping those labels around.

A knee injury forced Davies to withdraw from the series in 1996 (TV Newsroom, broadcast media archive). So the Gladiator era is short, specific and verifiable: 1995 to 1996, as Amazon.

The trade-off: the TV role gives Davies a second wave of fame, but it also buries the swimming career that made her famous in the first place.

Why did Sharron Davies not win gold?

Because the gold in her signature event went to one of the greats. Davies won silver in the women’s 400m individual medley at the 1980 Moscow Olympics (Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile), and the gold medal went to East Germany’s Petra Schneider (Wikipedia, encyclopedia entry).

Four years earlier, aged 13, Davies had already made her Olympic debut in Montreal (TV Newsroom, broadcast media archive). She went on to compete at three Olympic Games in total (TV Newsroom, broadcast media archive), and ITV News credits her with two Commonwealth Games titles as well (ITV News, regional news outlet).

What this means: the interesting fact is not the missing gold. It is that Davies reached an Olympic podium at 17, then built two more careers on top of it.

How old is Sharron Davies now?

Sharron Davies was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 1 November 1962 (Wikipedia, encyclopedia entry). That makes her 63 as of early 2026, with her 64th birthday falling in November 2026.

How tall is Sharron Davies?

• Height: not disclosed in the official biography or the cited sources

The honest answer is “not published”. Her official profile does not list a height, and none of the Tier 1 or Tier 2 sources in the research gives one. A guessed number would be invention, so this stays blank.

The pattern: the questions with the least reliable answers are the ones about her body and her bank balance. The verified record is about performance, titles and advocacy — not measurements.

Is Sharron Davies a dame?

No. The correct styling is Baroness Davies of Devonport, not Dame Sharron Davies. ITV News reported in January 2026 that the former Olympic swimmer and women’s campaigner was joining the red benches of the House of Lords (ITV News, regional news outlet). The full name in recent coverage is Sharron Elizabeth Davies, Baroness Davies of Devonport, and the MBE was awarded in the 1993 New Year Honours (Wikipedia, encyclopedia entry).

The distinction matters because “Dame” refers to a specific honour — a DBE — and none of the cited sources uses it for Davies. A life peerage and an MBE are both real, and both different from a damehood.

The trade-off: the peerage is recent enough that many articles still write “Dame” out of habit. The verified record is precise: Baroness, MBE, and no damehood.

Timeline: from Montreal to the red benches

Six moments, one pattern: every phase of Davies’s public life begins with a competitive peak, then a pivot into a new role.

The implication: the “when” of Davies’s career explains the “who”. Each decade gave her a new stage, and the 2026 move to the Lords is the latest version of that pattern.

Sharp answers: confirmed facts and what’s still unclear

The quickest way to fact-check Sharron Davies is to sort the record into two piles. Here they are.

Why this matters: the gap between the two lists is exactly where the myths live. Every invented net worth, “Dame” headline or marital update skips this distinction.

What the sources say

An English former swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships.

— Wikipedia, encyclopedia entry

A career that moved from medal-winning competition to television, broadcasting and public speaking — and an autobiography titled Against the Tide.

— Sharron Davies official biography, first-party profile

Former Olympic swimmer and women’s campaigner Sharron Davies joins red benches.

— ITV News, regional news outlet

Davies competed for Great Britain at three Olympic Games and joined ITV’s Gladiators in 1995 as Amazon.

— TV Newsroom, broadcast media archive

The pattern across all four: the strongest sources are the ones closest to Davies herself — her own biography — or the ones that logged the live broadcast record as it happened.

The verified Sharron Davies is not the one the search snippets have built: not a Dame, not currently married to Derek Redmond, not a vague “Gladiator woman” — but an Olympic silver medallist, a Gladiator named Amazon, an MBE, a baroness and an author. The record is strong on swimming and titles, and deliberately silent on money, height and her address. For anyone writing Davies’s next profile — a journalist, a fact-checker, or a Wikipedia editor — the implication is clear: cite the official biography and the broadcast record, or the same myths will resurface.

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