Rio 2016: If you want to produce an Olympic champion make sure your child is born on March 23

JUST in case you foster high hopes of producing a child who goes on to become an Olympic gold medallist...read on.

For the chances of your offspring climbing to the top of the podium at a future Games are significantly improved if they are born on March 23.

For that is the day that four of Great Britain’s best ever Olympians took their first breaths in Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Mo Farah.

Between the four of them they have won 20 gold medals across eight Olympic Games.

Redgrave started the ball rolling in Los Angeles in 1984 and their achievements spread all the way through to fellow-cyclist Kenny’s gold in the men’s Keirin in Rio on Tuesday night.

Redgrave won five golds in total in five separate Olympics – a total topped by Hoy and Kenny with six apiece – while Farah has three golds and could add a fourth with victory in the 5,000 metres.

By the way, March 23 has also spawned Sir Roger Bannister, who in 1954 became the first ever man to clock a sub-four-minute mile.

So, if your child is born on that day and is into sport, consider this story a boost to their hopes of Olympic stardom.