UK Sport

We use cookies to track and analyse visitors to our website

These cookies help make the website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation. They are necessary for our website to function and cannot be switched off.
These cookies gather information to understand how visitors interact with the website, such as how many people are using our website of which pages are popular to help us improve user experience. Switching off these cookies will mean that we cannot gather information to improve the user experience.
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by a third party provider whose services we have added to our website. Switching off these cookies mean that areas of our website cannot work properly.

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site.

For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.

Skip navigation
the national lottery
Twitter Facebook Youtube Instagram LinkedIn
  • About us
    • Our Directors Team
    • Our Board
    • Panels
    • Strategic Plan 2021-31
    • Our partners
    • English Institute of Sport
    • Accessibility
    • Contact us
    • Media centre
    • FAQs
    • Working at UK Sport
  • Our work
    • Investing in sport
    • Investing in events
    • Talent identification
    • Coaching
    • Powering positive change and social impact
    • International relations
    • Leadership, development & governance
  • Events
  • News
  • Sports
    Olympic sports
    • Archery
    • Artistic Swimming
    • Athletics
    • Badminton
    • Basketball
    • Bobsleigh
    • Boxing (Amateur)
    • Canoeing
    • Curling
    • View all
    Paralympic sports
    • Boccia
    • Goalball
    • Para-Archery
    • Para-Athletics
    • Para-Badminton
    • Para-Canoe
    • Para-Cycling
    • Para-Equestrian Dressage
    • Para-Rowing
    • View all
  • Resources
    • A Code for Sports Governance
    • Organisational Health
    • Annual reports
    • Board minutes
    • British Cycling independent review
    • Complaints and whistleblowing
    • Eligibility
    • Fraud, corruption and bribery
    • High Performance System Advisory Group
    • HR policy templates
    • Pregnancy guidance
    • Reports
    • Privacy policies
    • Publication Scheme
    • Recruitment framework
    • The Whyte Review
    • Tenders
    • Transparency and open data
    • Welsh language scheme
  • Jobs in sport
    • Explore career pathways
    • Jobs in sport
    • Submit a job
  • About us
    • Our Directors Team
    • Our Board
    • Panels
    • Strategic Plan 2021-31
    • Our partners
    • English Institute of Sport
    • Accessibility
    • Contact us
    • Media centre
    • FAQs
    • Working at UK Sport
  • Our work
    • Investing in sport
    • Investing in events
    • Talent identification
    • Coaching
    • Powering positive change and social impact
    • International relations
    • Leadership, development & governance
  • Events
  • News
  • Sports
    Olympic sports
    • Archery
    • Artistic Swimming
    • Athletics
    • Badminton
    • Basketball
    • Bobsleigh
    • Boxing (Amateur)
    • Canoeing
    • Curling
    • View all
    Paralympic sports
    • Boccia
    • Goalball
    • Para-Archery
    • Para-Athletics
    • Para-Badminton
    • Para-Canoe
    • Para-Cycling
    • Para-Equestrian Dressage
    • Para-Rowing
    • View all
  • Resources
    • A Code for Sports Governance
    • Organisational Health
    • Annual reports
    • Board minutes
    • British Cycling independent review
    • Complaints and whistleblowing
    • Eligibility
    • Fraud, corruption and bribery
    • High Performance System Advisory Group
    • HR policy templates
    • Pregnancy guidance
    • Reports
    • Privacy policies
    • Publication Scheme
    • Recruitment framework
    • The Whyte Review
    • Tenders
    • Transparency and open data
    • Welsh language scheme
  • Jobs in sport
    • Explore career pathways
    • Jobs in sport
    • Submit a job
Press Enter to Search
News

UK Sport welcomes confirmation of record-equalling fourth medal at Sochi 2014

Published 20 February 2014

UK Sport welcomes confirmation of fourth medal at Sochi Olympics to surpass target of at least 3 medals and equal best ever medal haul at a Winter Olympics.

A fantastic Bronze medal won by the GB Women’s Curling team in the Ice Cube today has taken Team GB’s confirmed medal tally at Sochi 2014 to four, surpassing the target of “at least three medals” set by UK Sport.

With Team GB’s male curlers in the Gold/Silver medal match tomorrow, a four-medal haul is guaranteed – equalling Britain’s best-ever performance in the Winter Olympic Games, matching the medal haul from the very first Winter Games in Chamonix, 1924.

Liz Nicholl, Chief Executive of UK Sport, said: "Congratulations to the women’s curling team: Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Claire Hamilton; as well as Lauren Gray; their coaches and support team; on winning this all important fourth medal for Team GB at Sochi 2014.

“For them it is due reward for the years of training and preparation they have put in, but for British winter sport we are witnessing history in the making.

“There’s been a record investment of National Lottery and Government funding into British winter sports, and now we have a historic medal haul – equal best with the first ever Games in 1924.

"Our decision to invest on a ‘no compromise’ basis for winter sports, in the same way as we do for summer sports, this past four years has really paid dividends – this team is truly doing the nation proud.

"What this shows is getting the right investment to the right athletes for the right reasons is key to delivering medal winning success – and we will approach our investment towards PyeongChang 2018 with this philosophy at the forefront of our minds. British winter sport has an exciting future ahead of it."

Simon Timson, UK Sport’s Director of Performance, said: "In my 20 plus years of involvement in British winter sport, I have never seen an Olympic team better prepared, confident and with such high expectation of themselves than this one, and surpassing the target of at least 3 medals just shows that we were right to be excited about their prospects.

"It is fitting that these historic medals have been delivered by curling. This sport is a fantastic demonstration of how strong collaborative partnerships – between the sport’s Governing Body, the Scottish Institute of Sport, UK Sport, and the British Olympic Association – can bring success at the highest level.

"Athletes like Jenny Jones, Lizzy Yarnold and the curling teams have benefitted from world class support, made possible by National Lottery funding, and a British high performance system buoyed by the momentum of the home Games in London.

"British athletes, whether they be summer, winter, Olympic or Paralympic, have belief in their ability, and this Games could prove to be a real turning point for us as a winter sports nation."

UK Sport has invested more than £14 million into British winter sport athletes who are competing at the Olympic and Paralympic Games at Sochi 2014, and had set a medal target of "at least three", after the combined range of medal targets agreed with UK Sport funded winter Olympic sports came to three to seven.

The women’s medal means that Curling will meet the top of the ambitious target range they agreed with UK Sport of 1-2 medals, meaning that every sport has either met, or still has the opportunity to meet, their performance target.
 

Share
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
News
five athletes sat on stage in mid disussion
International Relations Seminar 2023
21 March 2023
Eilish crossing the line celebrating with her arms in the air
New research shows British public support athletes speaking out and driving social change
8 March 2023
Female wheelchair basketball player lines up a shot at the hoop.
UK Sport makes first awards from NGB Development Fund to support organisational health
22 February 2023
Sport jobs in the UK
Find & advertise UK based sports jobs here
Read more
Funding Partners
  • DCMS
  • TNL partners
Strategic Partners
  • British Olympic Association
  • Paralympics GB
  • english institute of sport logo
  • Sport England
  • Sport Northern Ireland
  • Sport Wales
  • Sport Scotland
Sitelogo
Sitemap
  • Homepage
  • About us
  • Our work
  • Events
  • News
  • Sports
  • Resources
  • Jobs in sport
  • UK Sport editorial policy
  • Freedom of Information Act 2000
  • Website terms
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies policy
  • FAQs
Contact
UK Sport
6th Floor
10 South Colonnade
London
E14 4PU
E: info@uksport.gov.uk
T: +44 (0) 20 7211 5100
Follow us
Twitter Facebook Youtube Instagram LinkedIn

© Copyright UK Sport 2023