Cavanagh, who was chair of CGS between 2007 and 2015, has been awarded the accolade for service to sport and the Commonwealth Games Movement.

He led the organisation’s preparations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, which resulted in Scotland’s most successful ever Games to date, winning a total of 53 medals, including 19 golds.

Cavanagh played a key role on the Board of the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee and was also chair of their Sport Advisory Group.

Paul Bush OBE, who replaced Cavanagh as chair of CGS in May 2015, congratulated his predecessor.

"We are absolutely delighted that Michael has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year's Honours list," he said.  

"In his voluntary role as chair, Michael made a significant contribution not only to Team Scotland’s success at Glasgow 2014, but to the overall delivery of the Games.

"Glasgow 2014 truly raised the bar and will live long in the memory of the athletes of the Commonwealth as a 'pure, dead, brilliant' event that had their needs at the forefront of the planning and delivery.

"Michael has now been rightly recognised for his leadership and commitment to the Games Movement."

Tibbs, meanwhile, has been awarded an OBE for services to international trade and the sports sector.

He has made a significant contribution to a number of bilateral trade initiatives, helping to shape export strategies and promoting UK excellence overseas in the major sports events sector.

As chair of the UKTI Sports Advisory Group for the last seven years and a Board member since 2003, Tibbs has made his wide experience, knowledge and contacts in the sports event sector available to Government as well as connecting individual companies to opportunities.

He has transformed the sector’s promotion and has become the Department for International Trade’s public face in this area.

Tibbs was particularly cited for his outstanding contribution to UKTI’s success in securing a £14 billion ($17.3 billion/€16.4 billion) international business economic legacy from the hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

During his chairmanship of UKTI's Government Global Sports Projects Sector Advisory Group, there has been a significant rise in export business secured with future hosts of major sporting events.

"I am thrilled and deeply honoured to receive this award but would also like to thank my colleagues in the British Government and the Department for International Trade in helping British companies succeed in the very tough export market," said Tibbs, whose company JTA specialises in the area of international sport and particularly overseas clients linked to the Olympic Movement.

"Britain excels at sport and hosting sporting events and I am proud to help ensure that we also succeed in exporting in the sports sector."

Among the other people recognised in the Queen’s New Year's Honours list are the British Olympic Association’s Mark England and Paul Ford.

England has been awarded an OBE having served as Chef de Mission for Team GB’s 366-strong athlete delegation at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where Britain became the first nation to win more medals at the Games immediately after hosting with 67 bettering the 65 won at London 2012.

Ford has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) having headed up Team GB’s pre-Games preparation camp in Belo Horizonte, which hosted 164 athletes across 14 sports in world-class facilities prior to their arrival in Rio de Janeiro. 

Also recognised are British Weight Lifting chairman Peter Rowley, the recipient of an OBE for services to sports administration, and British Gymnastics’ men’s head national coach Eddie Van Hoof, who has been awarded an MBE for his outstanding contribution to gymnastics.

Van Hoof’s career as a gymnast included competing at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles after which he took on a coaching role that has spanned over 20 years.

His reign as British Gymnastics’ men’s head national coach has seen Britain achieve historic success at world and Olympic level.

This was capped by five men’s artistic gymnastics Olympic medals at Rio 2016, three of which went to Max Whitlock, who has also received an MBE.

Whitlock took top honours on floor and pommel horse, Britain’s first-ever gymnastics gold medals, and also took historic all-around bronze to take his overall Olympic medal tally to five medals over two Games.

Joanna Manning-Cooper, the former head of public relations and media at London 2012 and communications and marketing director for the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England, is among other MBE recipients for services to sport.

Manisha Tailor, the founder of Swaggarlicious which uses the power of football and education to engage with diverse community groups and organisations, has received the same honour for services to football and diversity in sport.