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Queen Elizabeth has died at the age of 96, it has been confirmed.
The Queen famously presented the World Cup to England captain Bobby Moore in 1966.
She was also a fan of horse racing and attended the Royal Ascot meeting annually.
Here is a collection of pictures from her time at sporting events during her reign.
In 1949, before becoming Queen, then Princess Elizabeth presented the FA Cup to Wolves captain Billy Wright (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
The Queen has had a long-standing interest in horse racing, dating throughout her reign. In 1953 she, alongside the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Norfolk congratulated trainer Captain C. Boyd-Rochfort, after the Queen’s horse Choir Boy won the Royal Hunt Cup at Royal Ascot (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Charles and Princess Anne visiting the polo ponies during a break in the polo tournament, in which the Duke of Edinburgh was playing at Smith’s Lawn in Windsor Great Park in 1956 (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II paid her first visit to Wimbledon since being crowned in 1957 to present American player Althea Gibson with the gold salver in the Ladies Singles Final (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother and the Duke of Beaufort at the Three Day Horse Trials at Badminton in 1958 (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
The Queen shook hands with England captain Bobby Moore after she had declared open the first World Cup game of the 1966 tournament (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
The Queen handed the World Cup trophy to a triumphant England team after the 1966 final (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
The Queen and the Duke of Norfolk at Royal Ascot in 1970 (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
On a tour of Australia, Queen Elizabeth II was introduced to the England cricket team by captain Tony Greig, before the start of the Centenary Test against Australia in Melbourne in 1977 (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
The English team paraded in front of the Queen at the 1994 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (PA Archive) (PA Archive)
The Queen congratulates Frankie Dettori after he won the 1999 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes horserace riding Daylami, at Ascot (Neil Munns/PA) (PA Archive)
John Eales, captain of Australia received the 1999 Rugby World Cup trophy from the Queen (Toby Melville/PA) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II and her mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother watch the finish of the Derby from the Royal Box at Epsom Downs in Surrey 2001 (Tim Ockenden/PA) (PA Archive)
At the opening of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, England captain David Beckham and Kirsty Howard handed the Queens Jubille baton to Queen (Phil Noble/PA) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II posed, with the England rugby squad at a reception at Buckingham Palace in London to celebrate winning the Rugby World Cup (Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II with the Princess Royal and Prime Minister David Cameron at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony (John Stillwell/PA) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II meet Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes during Ashes Test at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London in 2013 (Anthony Devlin/PA) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II the 2014 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony at Celtic Park, Glasgow (Danny Lawson/PA) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II meets one of her horses during day one of the Royal Windsor Horse Show at Windsor Castle in 2018 (Steve Parsons/PA) (PA Archive)
Queen Elizabeth II alongside winning Jockey Sean Levey during Champions Day at the Royal Ascot Racecourse in 2019 (Simon Cooper/PA) (PA Archive)
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