Audley Harrison has been banned from driving for three months after pleading guilty to speeding.
The Olympic boxing champion, who apologised to magistrates in Stafford after arriving late due to traffic problems on the M6, was also fined £600 for the offence which took him up to the 12 penalty points required for an automatic ban.
The court heard the 32-year-old super heavyweight gold medallist at the Sydney Olympics, was clocked by a speed camera on the A51 in Weston in Staffordshire, at 57mph in a 40mph zone.
Karen Bosworth, prosecuting, said the boxer had been served with a notice of intended prosecution because he had already amassed too many penalty points to be issued with a fixed fine.
Defence counsel Michael Epstein told the court that his client already had nine penalty points for a parking infringement in August 2000 and two other matters of speeding in January and June 2002.
The lawyer submitted that Harrison should receive a discretionary ban of less than the normal minimum of six months because of a number of factors, including the fact that the fighter held a clean licence for almost a decade after passing his test in 1991.
Mr Epstein said Harrison, from Northwood, Middlesex, accepted he could not plead "exceptional hardship" but added that the star travelled extensively for professional and charity commitments in many parts of the country.
"In order to meet those commitments he will have to take upon himself extra expense in order to have himself ferried around.
"Bearing in mind his extensive commitments to not only himself, but to many other people who are the fortunate beneficiaries of his time, I would invite the court to say that this is a case where you can apply your discretion and disqualify him for a limited period of time," he added.
