News

UK Sport is delighted to announce the 12 emerging high performance coaches.

UK Sport has today taken a major step to secure a more certain environment for Olympic and Paralympic sports in the current economic climate, with the combination of vital new investment from the Team 2012 initiative and adjustments to funding awards allowing for the mission to London to be kept firmly on track

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

Team 2012 was launched this week with leading payment system Visa announced as its Presenting Partner. It represents a huge new ambition for British sport, and is the largest national team ever sponsored, comprising approximately 1200 athletes from 47 sports and disciplines, Olympic and Paralympic alike

UK Sport's Podium Innovation Partner, BAE Systems, has installed a sophisticated performance monitoring system at the Manchester Velodrome to give British cyclists a further edge in training

UK Sport's Director of Performance, Peter Keen, reflects on the post-Beijing Mission 2012 reports, which were issued last week

Britain's Olympians and Paralympians return to competition with encouraging evidence the success of Beijing is being built on.

Zena Woolridge has been appointed Vice President of the European Squash Federation (ESF) and will sit on its Executive Board

Following a rigorous selection process, fourteen candidates have been selected to take part in the third year of UK Sport's International Leadership Programme (ILP) in 2009

UK Sport's reflects on the period of change, challenge and consolidation that has taken place since the turn of the year

UK Sport's Chair, Baroness Sue Campbell looks ahead to arguably the most eagerly anticipated four years in British sporting history

Gerry Sutcliffe, Minister for Sport, has announced that Philip Kimberley has been appointed as a Board Member of UK Sport

Baroness Sue Campbell CBE has been reappointed as the chair of UK Sport, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Burnham announced today

UK Sport's Podium Innovation Partner BAE Systems has today launched a nationwide initiative to inspire the next generation of British engineers and help Britain's top athletes become even more competitive

Team 2012 - features all the major organisations involved in supporting British elite sport

Twenty-four female athletes who responded to Victoria Pendleton's call for Girls4Gold last summer attended an intensive five day camp with British Cycling last week, all bidding for the once in a lifetime opportunity to earn a place on a development programme with one of Great Britain's most successful Olympic sports

Richard Lewis has been appointed the new Chair of Sport England, effective from 1 April 2009.

Girls4Gold Ambassador Shelley Rudman was recently crowned European Champion and is currently top of the world rankings. Meanwhile, athletes recruited via the Girls4Gold talent identification campaign have been attending talent assessment camps for the winter Olympic sport at the University of Bath

Athlete funding for eight Olympic and four Paralympic sports was confirmed today by UK Sport.

UK Sport's Research and Innovation team have today announced the first winner of their Ideas 4 Innovation: Garage Innovators Award.

A brief review of UK Sport's Talent ID and Research and Innovation work over the past 12 months

A brief review of the work of Sports Medicine and Science, Coaching and Performance Lifestyle over the past 12 months

Baroness Sue Campbell CBE was presented with the Recognition of Outstanding Contribution to Sport and Coaching Award.

Sue Campbell CBE, Chair of UK Sport and Youth Sport Trust, has been introduced to the House of Lords today as life peer Baroness Campbell of Loughborough

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

The closing module of UK Sport's second International Leadership Programme (ILP) took place this Tuesday at Lord's Cricket Ground, London

UK Sport's World Class Coaching Conference drew to a close at the Belfry in Warwickshire today. The November edition of the UK Sport podcast is now available to download and features intreviews with two of the 2005 Elite Coach intake who graduated this week

UK Sport has announced that following a meeting of its Board earlier this week it has agreed to support the newly reconstituted British Amateur Boxing Association as the lead body driving forward Olympic success for 2012.

Sue Campbell CBE, Chair of UK Sport and Youth Sport Trust, has been appointed to the House of Lords and will serve as a Crossbench Peer. The accolade is in recognition of her major sporting contribution to the UK

British Paralympics chief Phil Lane described his team's performance at the Beijing 2008 Games as "exceptional" today

David Weir wins his second gold on the penultimate day of the Games, which sees Britain reach 100 medals

David Roberts and Peter Norfolk hit the headlines as Britain's gold medal haul moves to 41

GB's cyclists and Equestrian team shone once again and delivered 8 gold medals between them on day three of the Beijing Paralympics. With more medals in the pool and on the track, it was another productive day for our Paralympians

Britain win eight medals on day two of the Games, with Eleanor Simmonds becoming Britain's youngest ever individual Champion

The spotlight returns to Beijing once again this weekend as just two weeks after the Olympic flame was extinguished in the Birds Nest stadium, the Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony gets underway on Saturday

Girls4Gold Ambassador Victoria Pendleton fulfilled her ambition of becoming an Olympic Champion in Beijing last week.

This time last week, Team GB had won two gold medals. Now, just seven days later that total stands at a magnificent 17 and there may be more to come. Team GB has enjoyed a Games few people would have believed possible and all of a sudden everyone's asking the same question: "What's the secret of our success?"

With just over a week to go before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are officially underway, UK Sport Chief Executive, John Steele, explains just what is needed to achieve success at the highest level - and reach the Olympic podium

The British Shooting Team has tested a piece of equipment designed and built by BAE Systems. The technology, which has been developed as part of a £1.5 million partnership with UK Sport, will assist Great Britain's best shooters in training ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and beyond

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