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 to transfer management of the Short Track Speed Skating World Class Programme from NISA to EIS

Published 25 June 2015

  • Annual investment review completed across all funded winter sports, following seven World medals won at 2015 World Championships
  • Minor investment adjustments to Short Track Speed Skating and Figure Skating
  • Responsibility for Short Track Speed Skating World Class Programme to transfer to EIS due to governance challenges within NISA

UK Sport, the nation’s high performance sports agency, has today (25 June 2015) announced that it will transfer responsibility for the management of, and associated investment into, the British Short Track Speed Skating World Class Programme from the National Ice Skating Association (NISA) to its science, medicine and technology subsidiary the English Institute of Sport (EIS).

Following the first Annual Investment Review for winter sports in the PyeongChang investment cycle, no sports have seen a significant change in investment levels*. However, due to challenges within the governance of the National Ice Skating Association (NISA), the governing body for both Short Track Speed Skating and Figure Skating, UK Sport has taken the decision that, in order to develop the significant medal potential of the Short Track athletes, the World Class Programme will be best led by the EIS, who already deliver sport science and medical support services to the sport**. The long term objective will be for UK Sport to work with NISA to improve its governance so that the programme can be reintegrated.

View the latest winter sport funding figures >

The annual investment review process takes into consideration each sport’s performance against targets over the past year, as well as the governance of the sport. Sports are invited to discuss the annual investment review with a UK Sport panel where appropriate, which also includes independent scrutiny. Recommendations by the panel are taken to an internal investment board, but must ultimately be ratified by the Board of UK Sport, who met yesterday and approved this course of action.

Liz Nicholl, Chief Executive of UK Sport, said: “Good governance in sport is crucial to delivering world class performances at the top level. UK Sport is committed to driving this as a requirement of our public investment.

“Our talented British short track speed skaters have great potential and we are concerned the challenges currently faced by NISA could seriously hamper their prospects at the PyeongChang Games in 2018.

“We’ve not taken this decision lightly but feel the programme can go from strength to strength under the EIS’ leadership. We will work closely with NISA to address the governance challenges they are facing and will plan to reintegrate the programme once our concerns have been resolved and NISA is better positioned, once again, to take on the responsibility of managing the World Class Programme.”

Nigel Walker, National Director of the EIS, said: “The EIS has a number of our sport science and medicine practitioners working well with the short track athletes and coaches, so in order to safeguard those working practices and relationships it makes absolute sense for the EIS to lead the programme.

“Our focus will be on driving performance improvements and putting programme leadership in place which allows the athletes and coaches to thrive with a view to transitioning the programme back to the sport in the future at a time agreed by UK Sport and NISA.”

Commenting on the progress of our winter sports in 2015, where seven medals were won by British athletes at targeted events following the record breaking performances of Britain’s Olympians and Paralympians at Sochi 2014, Simon Timson, Director of Performance at UK Sport, said: “Sports often have to recalibrate in the year after an Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games as some established athletes retire and coaches and support staff move on to pursue different opportunities. The mixed results we saw last season are a reflection of this.

“However, 2015 still saw many of our National Lottery funded winter sport athletes break new ground; Lizzy Yarnold completed her title set with World Championship gold, Elise Christie became a double World silver medallist and our Para Alpine programme saw up and coming talent come to the fore, with Millie Knight and Ben Moore securing four World Championships medals in total.

“These are exciting times for British winter sport, especially with the introduction of new disciplines in Big Air and Mixed Doubles Curling now confirmed for PyeongChang 2018.”

*The indicative four year investment figures for Short Track Speed Skating and Figure Skating have been reduced as a result of the review and both sports remain on a one year award, as does Para Alpine Skiing. Bobsleigh’s one year award status has been removed.

**It was felt that due to the offshore delivery of the Figure Skating Programme it was not necessary to put the same governance arrangements in place for this discipline.

Download a breakdown of the winter sports’ achievements vs. targets in 2015 >

Share
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
News
skeleton athlete going head first down the ice slope at Sochi 2014 Olympic Games
Skeleton awarded £4.7m for Milan-Cortina Olympic Cycle
22 September 2022
Ariel photograph of three Team GB curling athletes stood over the house on a curling ice sheet at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
UK Sport invests for the long term with broader range of winter sports set for funding
25 July 2022
Katherine Grainger headshot
UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Grainger End of Paralympic Games Blog
13 March 2022
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