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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.

A silver medal in the cycling men’s team pursuit at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games secured the milestone.

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.

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.

Budget and Spending Review confirms £41million of investment.

London 2012 Paralympic medallist Jon-Allan Butterworth attends Manchester Disability Hub.

Tokyo has seen Team GB’s cycling team collect a host of medals, across a range of disciplines.

Whyte's former club in Peckham benefiting from The National Lottery investment.

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

Liz Nicholl: Firm action will help us drive a more sustainable winning culture across the high performance system.

After landing the UCI Road World Championships, Head of Major Events Esther Britten has high hopes there is more to come

The UCI Road World Championships is coming to Great Britain as Yorkshire was announced as host of the 2019 event.

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.

The biggest multi-sport talent id campaign in British history, #DiscoverYour Gold, aims to identify future champions.

Jude Kelly CBE is announced as the final member of the British Cycling independent review panel

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

An expert panel to lead the independent review into British Cycling has been named

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.

Annamarie Phelps will Chair the jointly commissioned independent review into British Cycling’s World Class Programme.

Katie Archibald explains how the thrill of cycling has turned into an Olympic dream

From young pretender to leading light, Laura Trott knows what it takes to be the best

BAE Systems have revealed details of technology it has developed for Britain’s top cyclists in 2016.

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

Could you be the next sprint sensation in British Cycling?

The Manchester round of the 2015 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup has been crowned best event of the year.

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

BAE Systems are working with the Great Britain Cycling Team's BMX squad

Find out how buying a National Lottery ticket is helping the Great Britain Cycling Team achieve success.

World class cycling to return to Olympic venue in London

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

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

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

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).

Skier James Woods took time away from his hectic schedule to discuss Sochi 2014, inspiration and his hair.

Following consultation with members of the public, sports, athletes and key partners UK Sport adopts new funding eligibility policy.

Today sees the one year anniversary since the women's hockey team beat New Zealand to win bronze at London 2012

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.

British Wheelchair Basketball has won the bid to host the 2015 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships.

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

UK Sport confirm goal of finishing second in the Paralympic medal table and a target of at least 103 medals from at least 12 sports.

The first Gold medal for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games has been won by Helen Glover and Heather Stanning.

"No compromise" represents the mind-set and philosophy we believe is paramount to achieving greatness.

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

Fighting Chance's Ruebyn Richards gives performance of career.

The Grand Depart has brought the spotlight back on cycling and the UK's successful hosting of a complex major sporting event, with the support of UK Sport's World Class Events Programme

UK Sport and SportsAid, the sports charity, today unveiled a strategic partnership designed to offer enhanced support to emerging athletes across 35 sports in the build up to the London Olympics and Paralympics in 2012

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

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