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Peter Keen - Director of Performance

Peter joined UK Sport in 2004 as a Performance Consultant. Currently as Director of Performance at UK Sport, Peter Keen leads the work supporting the active delivery of Mission 2012 and UK Sport’s performance ambitions, including the Performance Advisor team and delivery of vital performance programmes around Talent ID, Research and Development and CPD within the system.

A talented junior international cyclist (national champion and record holder over 10 miles) Peter began coaching from the age of 22 and was first appointed national cycling coach aged 25.

He was a University lecturer in Sports Physiology for 10 years until 1997 with degrees from University College Chichester and Loughborough University, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Brighton. In his academic career he has had over 20 papers published in peer reviewed journals.

As a GB Team official Peter attended four Olympic Games in Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney and over 20 Cycling World Championships. He coached elite women and men to nine world records and gold medals at Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European Championships, and over 50 national titles. His most high profile athlete was Chris Boardman MBE, whom he coached from age 18 until his retirement in 2000, aged 32.

Peter left Academia in 1997 to set up the lottery funded High Performance Cycling Programme based at the Manchester Velodrome. He then oversaw Great Britain’s move from the 13th ranked nation in world cycling in 1998 to 4th in 2002 based on World Championship results. He was awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to sport and joined GSK in the same year as Performance Director of the Lucozade Sport Science Academy.

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