Here is the list of people who UK Athletics are backing to battle for Paralympic podium places in the future
A total of 35 athletes have been offered membership in the Paralympic World Class Programme for 2024/25.
This follows a Paris Paralympics where the British team won 18 medals – six of them gold – at Paris 2024.
Hannah Cockroft, Sammi Kinghorn, Dan Pembroke, Ben Sandilands, and Sabrina Fortune – the five British athletes who secured gold medals in Paris – are all selected for the highest level of lottery funding.
Levels of Support for Athletes Targeting LA 2028 and Beyond
The program is split into three different levels of support – Podium, Podium Potential, and Confirmation – with the goal of helping athletes who the governing body feels can win medals at the 2028 LA Paralympics or in 2032.
The next big aim for athletes will be next year’s World Para Athletics Championships, with the destination of the event still to be decided.
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Head of the UKA Paralympic programme, Katie Jones said: “Our thanks go to UK Sport and The National Lottery for investing in the Paralympic World Class Programme. We look forward to receiving confirmation of our LA investment later this year so that we can continue to retain our place as one of the world’s leading nations for para-athletics.
“The support is essential to helping our para athletes continue to be the best prepared they can be for the major Championships and Games and it is essential we continue to build on the successes of the last few Paralympic cycles.”
The list of people chosen for Olympic WCP is already out, with the cohort of 65 athletes including Keely Hodgkinson, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, and Matt Hudson-Smith.
The list of UK athletes receiving Paralympic WCP funding for 2024/25
Paralympic Podium (19)
Kare Adenegan
Hollie Arnold
Olivia Breen
Jonathan Broom-Edwards
Hannah Cockroft
Aled Davies
Sabrina Fortune
Dan Greaves
Sophie Hahn
Sammi Kinghorn
Owen Miller
Anna Nicholson
Daniel Pembroke
Marcus Perrineau-Daley
Ben Sandilands
Zac Shaw
Daniel Sidbury
Zak Skinner
Thomas Young
Paralympic Podium Potential (11)
Fabienne André
Lydia Church
Nathan Maguire
Luke Nuttall
Funmi Oduwaiye
Jonnie Peacock
Eden Rainbow-Cooper
Kevin Santos
Ali Smith
Harrison Walsh
Melanie Woods
Paralympic Confirmation (5)
Steven Bryce
Karim Chan
Barney Corrall
Maddie Down
Didi Okoh
UK Games Olympic WCP: Supporting Athletes with Medal Potential for LA 2028 and Beyond
A gathering of 65 competitors have been selected for participation to join the UK Games Olympic Top notch Program (WCP) for 2024/25.
The Olympic WCP is the UK Games’s Public Lottery-financed drive to recognize, create, and uphold capable competitors toward award accomplishment at the Olympic Games and other major worldwide Titles.
The WCP is divided into a few levels mirroring competitors’ genuine and future exhibition potential: Platform, Platform Potential, Transfer, and Affirmation. Competitors are designated for the WCP assuming they are decided to have the reasonable potential and verifiable presentation ability and ability to win awards at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games or in 2032.
UKA is focused on the rule that triumphant will continuously be accomplished with honesty and be in accordance with UK Game’s desire of ‘Continue To win and Win Well’.
In earlier years, selection for WCP participation was dependent upon UK Game sanction and a consented-to arrangement between the competitor and UKA.
UKA Olympic Lead trainer Paula Dunn said:
“I might want to say thanks to UK Game and The Public Lottery for their proceeded with interest in the Elite Program. Their help is fundamental in assisting our competitors with being all that pre-arranged they can be for the greatest contests in our game.
“Sports has had two successive long stretches of bringing back 10 decorations from a worldwide stage and this speculation is vital to that. I accept we have exhibited as a game we are coordinating this interest into the right regions and anticipate getting affirmation of our LA venture in the not-so-distant future.
“For those competitors who have progressed off the program or not made the program today, it isn’t to say they will not have the outcome in the future, simply that the boundaries for WCP determination are unmistakable and they don’t qualify right as of now. Every individual who wears the GB and NI vest ought to be glad for their accomplishment, we are, and we will keep on seeing where we can add worth, backing, and direction to those people who don’t meet the WCP rules as of now.
“At last, likewise with any Olympic year, we have additionally seen various competitors deciding to resign from GB rivalry and their put on the WCP. I might want to thank those competitors who have addressed GB and NI so well throughout the long term. Your presence both on the WCP and in the GB and NI group will be remembered fondly and everybody hopes everything works out for you of karma in your future vocations and aspirations.”
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