Historical funding figures

The following tables state the UK Sport funding received by sports for Olympic and Paralympic cycles, for both the summer and winter games since funding began in May 1997.

In addition to funding for sports funding has been made directly to athletes in the form of Athlete Performance Awards (APAs).

To help with accessibility on this page, funding figures from Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 (Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games) and Salt Lake City 1998, Torino 2002 and Vancouver 2006 (Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games) have been removed from the tables below. If you require figures from the inception of National Lottery Funding in 1997 to 2024, please download our Historical Funding Figures document (PDF).

This page was last updated: April 2025

Funding for sports

Summer Olympic Sports

Sport	London	Rio	Tokyo**	Paris*
Archery	£3,479,900	£2,473,437	£1,122,879	£2,632,674
Artistic Swimming	£2,686,800	£1,011,290	£251,000	£467,250
Athletics	£20,613,100	£21,820,808	£22,416,808	£22,175,520
Badminton	£5,979,860	£4,922,229	£889,793	£3,322,558
Baseball	-	-	£30,500	£176,250
Basketball	£7,127,800	£1,927,061	£330,500	£1,350,000
Boxing	£7,551,900	£11,151,737	£11,606,057	£11,597,507
Breaking	-	-	-	£135,000
Canoeing	£12,981,800	£16,293,651	£15,765,693	£13,081,836
Cycling	£20,613,900	£23,966,916	£24,559,306	£29,172,590
Diving	£5,190,700	£6,133,760	£7,172,659	£8,860,542
Equestrian	£10,580,200	£14,397,300	£11,951,195	£11,763,376
Fencing	£2,132,346	£3,593,344	£341,631	£1,542,015
Gymnastics	£8,734,100	£11,791,228	£13,285,417	£13,180,313
Handball	£2,924,721	-	£8,400	£375,000
Hockey	£11,915,500	£12,489,618	£12,640,301	£13,379,120
Judo	£6,048,700	£6,004,700	£6,425,471	£6,244,538
Karate	-	-	£771,439	-
Modern Pentathlon	£4,990,900	£5,586,124	£5,176,847	£5,360,432
Rowing	£21,579,000	£26,156,762	£23,682,934	£22,822,008
Sailing	£18,133,000	£21,469,835	£21,796,891	£22,348,411
Shooting	£2,461,866	£3,452,146	£5,892,790	£6,130,092
Skateboarding	-	-	£178,165	£1,819,485
Softball	-	-	£62,500	£428,750
Sport Climbing	-	-	£737,365	£1,629,345
Surfing	-	-	£131,093	£1,350,000
Swimming	£20,195,800	£17,138,391	£18,046,062	£18,242,735
Table Tennis	£1,132,648	-	£325,100	£1,350,000
Taekwondo	£3,827,600	£6,653,992	£8,158,805	£8,194,987
Triathlon	£4,210,100	£6,308,664	£6,808,283	£7,005,550
Volleyball	£3,993,318	£108,466	£73,350	£286,000
Water Polo	£2,874,544	£890,725	-	£375,000
Weightlifting	£1,246,157	£1,470,540	£215,900	£2,270,000
Wrestling	£1,435,210	-	£50,700	£276,000
Total	£214,641,470	£227,212,724	£220,906,834	£239,344,884

*Figures correct as of April 2021, the beginning of the Paris Games Investment Cycle. Investment figures may change throughout a Games cycle due to Annual Review and other in-cycle funding awards.

**Any variances related to previously published figures relating to the Tokyo 2020 cycle are due to the postponement of the games until 2021. With any significant underspend being transferred into the sports funding for the Paris cycle.

Summer Paralympic Sports

Sport	London	Rio	Tokyo**	Paris*
Boccia	£1,466,300	£2,742,928	£2,872,322	£3,551,835
Disability Football	-	£273,466	-	-
Goalball	£513,453	£241,406	£125,000	£346,600
Para-Archery	£1,375,100	£1,770,297	£2,628,541	£2,688,644
Para-Athletics	£4,414,700	£7,609,257	£8,469,600	£9,065,401
Para-Badminton	-	-	£910,711	£1,290,173
Para-Canoe	-	£2,237,335	£2,834,671	£3,471,116
Para-Cycling	£2,624,200	£4,745,300	£5,661,328	£8,043,492
Para-Equestrian Dressage	£2,291,500	£2,681,800	£3,179,056	£3,310,493
Para-Rowing	£1,465,300	£2,767,482	£2,399,105	£3,402,577
Para-Sailing	£1,098,700	£2,853,110	-	-
Para-Shooting	£1,375,900	£2,551,228	£2,076,000	£2,102,468
Para-Swimming	£6,567,950	£8,554,918	£8,721,543	£8,408,475
Para-Table Tennis	£1,145,000	£2,199,209	£2,704,847	£3,858,687
Para-Taekwondo	-	-	£468,525	£746,712
Para-Triathlon	-	£2,356,181	£2,683,775	£4,018,618
Powerlifting	£722,400	£683,935	£1,097,075	£1,781,381
Sitting Volleyball	-	-	£11,000	£375,000
VI Judo	£863,100	£1,513,974	£1,859,166	£989,775
Wheelchair Basketball	£3,030,831	£4,181,459	£4,462,597	£4,458,172
Wheelchair Fencing	£552,892	£319,001	£650,044	£1,797,399
Wheelchair Rugby	£1,527,500	£2,374,907	£460,000	£2,950,289
Wheelchair Tennis	£329,696	£1,349,345	-	-
Total	£31,364,522	£54,006,538	£54,274,906	£66,657,307

*Figures correct as of April 2021, the beginning of the Paris Games Investment Cycle. Investment figures may change throughout a Games cycle due to Annual Review and other in-cycle funding awards.

Winter Olympic Sports

Sport	Sochi	PyeongChang	Beijing
Biathlon	-	-	£6,000
Bobsleigh	£2,743,254	£4,102,764	£120,000
Curling	£1,588,133	£4,408,350	£5,257,900
Figure Skating	£191,340	£1,009,016	£40,000
Ice Hockey	-	-	-
Luge	-	-	£6000
Short Track Speed Skating	£2,596,500	£3,665,308	£700,271
Skeleton	£2,972,700	£5,781,819	£6,479,500
Ski and Snowboard	£1,212,047	£4,248,785	£9,530,628
Speed Skating	-	-	£20,000
Total	£11,303,974	£23,216,042	£22,160,299

Winter Paralympic Sports

Sport	Sochi	PyeongChang	Beijing
Para-Ski and Snowboard	£250,600	£2,237,000	£4,539,964
Wheelchair Curling	£253,732	£510,080	£735,606
Total	£504,332	£2,747,080	£5,275,570

Funding for athletes (Athlete Performance Awards)

Total funding for Summer Olympic and Paralympic athletes per cycle via APA’s.

London	Rio	Tokyo	Paris
£67,392,148	£57,469,978	£62,634,476	£68,135,776

Total funding for Winter Olympic and Paralympic athletes per cycle via APA’s.

Sochi	PyeongChang	Beijing
£2,262,492	£5,404,056	£5,064,852

All information on this page is correct as of the last update: April 2025