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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.

Paralympic gold-medallist Oliver Hynd attended Northampton Swimming Club to celebrate Summers-Newton’s Tokyo heroics.

UK Sport Chair Dame Katherine Grainger reflects on the contribution of Maurice Watkins to British sport.

Dearing became the first black female swimmer to represent Team GB at the Olympics.

Mel Marshall and Jane Figueiredo instrumental in British success.

British Swimming's Mel Marshall discusses her experiences as part of last year's cohort.

The Championships will take place in Tollcross International Swimming Centre between 4-8 December 2019.

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.

With Adam Peaty aiming for Olympic glory, meet the woman helping him make waves in the pool

Adam Peaty and Jazz Carlin put Great Britain on the medal table with outstanding performances in the pool.

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.

After the heartache of missing out on London 2012, Jazz Carlin is ready to make amends in Rio

UK Sport announces third intake of the World Class Coaching: Elite Programme

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

Head Coach Bill Furniss confirms the team he takes to London 2016 will compete at Rio

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.

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

It was an impressive weekend for Great Britain at the ICF World Cup in London, part of UK Sport's Gold Event Series.

Cricket for Peace CEO Justine Ligyalingi explains how the project is reaching children in Uganda

BAE Systems technology set to give GB Short Track the edge

Sochi medal hopefuls head to BAE Systems in Warton for wind tunnel testing.

Talent ID scheme between UK Sport, the EIS and GB Canoeing begin hunt for future Olympians.

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

Following the launch of a new policy on eligibility for funding, UK Sport have issued the following statement.

15 graduates of the Fighting Chance: Battle4Brazil initiative join the GB Taekwondo World Class Performance Programme.

UK Sport Chair Rod Carr thanks Sports Minister Hugh Robertson and welcomes Helen Grant.

Following the announcement of Bill Sweeney as the new CEO of the BOA today, Liz Nicholl, CEO of UK Sport..

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

One year ago today, Great Britain won their first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games

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

An extra £443,200 to be invested in Britain's winter sports while Britain's summer sports reveal ambitious targets for 2013.

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

Carr has underlined importance of increasing the number of female, and disability and disabled coaches, in high-performance sport.

Simon Timson has been appointed to the role of Director of Performance at UK Sport.

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

UK Sport's Head of Research and Innovation, Dr Scott Drawer, blogs on marginal gains.

Fighting Chance's Ruebyn Richards gives performance of career.

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

UK Sport will not shy away from intervening in sports where change will improve performance in the build up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, John Steele, UK Sport's Chief Executive said last night

With just six years to go to London 2012, the need for outstanding British coaches has never been greater. UK Sport today unveiled the identities of ten coaches singled out for development - the majority of whom will be hoping to be the driving force behind home medal success in six years time

Saturday marked a momentous day for high performance sport in this country, with significant changes to the sporting system finally taking effect

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

UK Sport announces today that John Steele has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Mr Steele is currently Executive Director at Northampton Saints Rugby Football Club, where he was also successful as both a player and coach

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

London 2012 has announced a refocus of the bid leadership following its success in being short-listed as a Candidate City for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

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

As the last sporting year drew to a close, news came that the UK can lay claim to being among the top five most successful nations in world sport