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UK Sport announces its first-ever Event Social Impact Partners for the LA cycle.

Hannah Cockcroft who won her ninth gold medal at a Games in the summer was made a CBE alongside ParalympicsGB, chef de mission Penny Briscoe.

UK Sport has revealed its greatest investment to date with £330m in Government and National Lottery funding set to benefit more than 50 sports.

UK Sport, the UK’s high performance sport agency, has confirmed its medal expectations for sports for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Impact reports from World Gymnastics Championships 2022 and Rugby League World Cup 2021.

Elite British athletes formerly on the World Class Programme can now connect across sports thanks to a new digital platform.

Dame Katherine Grainger, visited Tanzania alongside Skateboard GB representatives including CEO, James Hope-Gill.

The Olympic and Paralympic high-performance sport community have been recognised in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours list.

We're working with Sport England to ensure that appropriate changes are made to gymnastics and across the wider sporting sector

The independent report examines allegations of mistreatment in the sport of gymnastics.

Mel Marshall and Jane Figueiredo instrumental in British success.

UK Sport Chair looks ahead to the upcoming action and the extraordinary efforts of our athletes in making it to Tokyo.

Joint statement with Sport England on publication of the Whyte Review.

A joint Sport England & UK Sport statement regarding the Whyte Review and an extension to the Call for Evidence period.

An independent review into allegations about mistreatment within the sport of gymnastics has formally begun.

Details of a fully independent review into British Gymnastics.

The event returns to the UK for an impressive fourth time.

More history made by Great Britain on the penultimate day of Rio 2016.

No host nation had ever topped their medal tally in the following away Games, until Team GB eclipsed London 2012 in Rio

Records tumbled and history was written during 15 days of British sporting glory in Rio de Janeiro

History was written by the GB women's hockey team and Nick Skelton added a shock gold to the medal table.

The Brownlee brothers and Jade Jones show their dominance by winning repeat gold medals on day 13

An all-time best result from Great Britian's women's hockey team means they will push back for gold

Great Britain eclipse their best ever away Games in Rio as Jason Kenny wins a phenomenal sixth Olympic gold

The best ever overseas medal haul eclipses the 47 medals won at Beijing 2008 with many more athletes still to compete.

Charlotte Dujardin strikes gold with a mesmorising display on Valegro and Mark Cavendish gets his first Olympic medal.

It rained medals on our best ever day at an away Olympics with history written in gymnastics, golf, tennis and cycling.

Inspirational Farah takes an emotional third Olympic gold as GB gather eight medals on day eight

Bradley Wiggins captures an unprecedented eighth Olympic medal as GB collects three golds and three silvers on day seven

Helen Glover has become a double Olympic champion after being fast-tracked to rowing by a pioneering talent ID campaign.

Heroics from Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley and fireworks in the velodrome light up day six.

On a day billed as ‘Wonderful Wednesday’, GB took six medals including two heroic golds and a historic gymnastics bronze

Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and the men’s 4x200m relay team, anchored by James Guy, delivered silver service in the pool.

Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow dived to a dramatic bronze with shooter Ed Ling also on the podium.

UK Sport has appointed Chelsea Warr to drive the progress of Great Britain’s high performance system after Rio 2016.

UK Sport has announced targets of at least 48 Olympic and 121 Paralympic medals for British teams at Rio 2016

The National Lottery and ITV are asking the nation to get active by taking part in UK’s biggest ever sports day.

UK Sport's Director of Performance Simon Timson will join British Tennis as Performance Director from 1 November 2016.

Athletes are being encouraged to consider their careers after sport and prepare for life away from the field of play

National Lottery funded athletes give back over 17,000 days to inspiring a generation on Road to Rio

Liz Nicholl, CEO of UK Sport, has welcomed Sport England's new five-year strategy

EIS practitioners give over 4,500 each week to support athletes in four year Rio cycle

Nigel Walker, the National Director at the English Institute of Sport, discusses what makes a high performance athlete

It's another day in the office for GB's stars but there's no 9-to-5s here. See what it takes to stay ahead of the game.

Minister for Sport to visit Glasgow Commonwealth Games venue SSE Hydro in Glasgow to cheer on British athletes

UK Sport CEO says "it’s an incredible time to be involved in British sport"

UK Sport announces 2015 performance targets, as UK celebrates Women’s Sport Week

UK Sport seek input into strategic direction beyond Rio 2016, to deliver maximum impact from investing in high performance sport.

Some of Britain's best sportswomen appear on shortlist for 2014 award.

British gymnasts looking for more success at Glasgow as World Championships approach.

We speak to the Performance Manager at British Gymnastics about athlete development and the talent pathway.

It wasn't just our World Class Programme athletes who enjoyed success at Glasgow 2014, graduates of our ECAP programme did too.

A round-up of the action from eleventh and findal day of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

A round-up of Day Nine of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

London 2012 venue to host World Cup as part of Gold Event Series.

Day five of the Commonwealth Games saw the action get started in track and field.

We speak to Barry Collie, National Coach of British Gymnastics men's junior team on their recent success.

UK Sport and Bupa announce partnership extension.

Jenny Jones wins Great Britain's first ever Olympic medal on snow at Sochi 2014.

We take a look at the sport of skeleton and explore their journey to Sochi 2014.

Olympic Champion and trustee of London 2012's legacy charity International Inspiration embarks on 26.2 mile challenge.

Twelve coaches have been inducted onto the latest UK Sport Elite Coaching Apprenticeship Programme (ECAP).

We speak to GB's most successful ever female diving partnership about the Road to Rio, training and Girls4Gold.

Britain's most successful female rower, Katherine Grainger CBE, helps launch new Girls4Gold campaign.

John Steele, CEO of the Youth Sport Trust and former CEO of UK Sport & the Rugby Football Union, has been appointed to chair the EIS.

We caught up with slopestyle snowboarder Aimee Fuller as she prepares for Sochi 2014.

Take a look at UK Sport's year in numbers since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Some of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic stars tell us about how they're trying to get the next generation inspired by sport.

Today, the Japan Sport Council and UK Sport signed a Memorandum of Understanding to reinforce their commitment to work together.

UK Sport will not be activating proposed plans to channel World Class Performance Programme funds for GB Boxing through a SPV.

Mission 2014 set to put Britain on the winter sport map.

The Gold Event Series was unveiled today by UK Sport and the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS)

UK Sport has today made public the investment principles by which funding will be allocated to Olympic and Paralympic sports for Rio.

The drive towards defending second place on the Paralympic medal table has been kicked off in style this afternoon with two outstand.

Bradley Wiggins wins gold and Chris Froome wins bronze in the time trial.

Badminton coach Peter Jeffrey blogs on his journey to London 2012 with Team GB players Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier.

25 Olympic and Paralympic sports rated green overall with 120 days to go to the Olympics and 153 to the Paralympics.

England has been selected as the host of the women's and men's EuroHockey Championships.

UK Sport comments on proposed merger announcement.

Nigel Walker is to join the English Institute of Sport (EIS) as National Director.

Over 5 million children and young people around the world are benefiting from London 2012 through International Inspiration.

Talented scientists, engineers and inventors are encouraged to make an impact on British performances in 2012 as applications reopen for Ideas4Innovation, which has been granted the Inspire Mark

Britain's elite sports professionals congregated at The Belfry for the opening of UK Sport's World Class Performance Conference.

£292 million of confirmed investment has been allocated by UK Sport to British Olympic and Paralympic sports ahead of London 2012.

World cycling champion Victoria Pendleton and Olympic silver medallist Shelley Rudman have today launched Girls4Gol

Following Gordon Brown's Budget announcement of an additional funding for high performance sport, UK Sport has affirmed its commitment to ensuring the fast, effective distribution of these funds to governing bodies and athletes

Gordon Brown's Budget announcement of additional funding for high performance sport in the run up to London 2012 has received an enthusiastic response from the sporting community

UK Sport, the Government agency responsible for the funding and support of Olympic and Paralympic sport, is delighted with the additional 2012 performance funding announced in today's Budget

Following the articles that have appeared in the press over recent days, UK Sport has issued a statement to clarify the current situation with regards to the funding of Olympic sportsmen and women

London's bid document for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 is being submitted to the International Olympic Committee today

Britain has won its first gold medal of the Games with a convincing victory in the sailing as Shirley Robertson and her Yngling crew proved themselves to be untouchable with a race to spare

With some 36 days to go until the 2004 Olympics get underway, UK Sport today looked beyond Athens and announced the funding package available to support leading athletes up to the next summer Games in Beijing 2008

The International Olympic Committee announced today that London - along with Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris - has made it on to the short-list of cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The women's curling team, led by skip Rhona Martin, won Great Britain's first Gold medal at a Winter Olympics since 1984 with victory over Switzerland in a dramatic final on Thursday

Alex Coomber won Britain's first medal in Salt Lake after finishing third in the Bob Skeleton on day thirteen of the Games. The women's curling team are assured of at least a Silver after making the final

Sports science support available to Britain's leading athletes and coaches will be improved following an agreement between the UK Sports Institute and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science

UK Sport Chairman Sir Rodney Walker today welcomed Dr Jack Cunningham's report into the funding of elite sport and promised that his organisation would approach the report's recommendations with an open mind

Sport England have announced an award of up to £23,540,000 for the English Institute of Sport Sheffield project. This multi-sport facility forms part of the UK Sports Institute network