Clare has worked in radio since she left university in 1994, and has been presenting major events on television and radio since becoming the face of the BBC\u2019s horse racing output in 1998. Since then, she has worked on various sporting fixtures including seven Olympic Games, five Paralympic Games and five Winter Olympic Games as well as major Royal events including Trooping the Colour, the Queen\u2019s Royal Pageant and the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n
Clare has hosted walking series Ramblings on Radio 4 since 1999 and has presented Crufts for the BBC and Channel 4 since 2004. Clare was the main presenter for Channel 4\u2019s coverage of the European Women\u2019s Football Championships and fronted the documentary \u2018When Football Banned Women\u2019. She has also presented factual documentaries on Icons in sport, the Suffragettes, the Queen and Horses and a series about veterinary work on wild animals called Operation Wild.<\/p>\n
From 2013-2018, she hosted The Clare Balding Show on BT Sport, interviewing some of the most famous names in sport. Clare presented the 2017 America\u2019s Cup in Bermuda, the WTA Tour Finals from Singapore, Fed Cup tennis and women\u2019s football, all for BT.<\/p>\n
As well as winning a personal BAFTA, Clare has been part of many BAFTA Award-winning programmes, has twice been named RTS Sports Presenter of the Year, as well as Sports Presenter of the Year at the TRIC Awards, Racing Journalist of the Year, awarded the special achievement award at the Women in Film and Television Awards and been praised for \u201cperfect presentation\u201d by the judges of the Broadcast Awards.<\/p>\n
A bestselling author, Clare\u2019s first book, \u2018My Animals and Other Family\u2018 was published by Penguin in 2012. Based on her childhood growing up in an unusual household, it was published to critical acclaim and went on to win biography of the year at the National Book Awards. Her most recent book Heroic Animals was released in October 2020 and raced straight into the best seller lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"