UK Sport

Multiple Sports
Events

UK Sport has published its major event hosting target list for the coming decade, with the Commonwealth Games and Olympics omitted from a list that includes the Fifa Women’s World Cup.
Athletics
Events

UK Sport and UK Athletics are drawing up a plan to bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships, with London being eyed as the host city.
Para Sport
Events

World Para Swimming has unveiled Manchester as host of the 2023 Para Swimming World Championships
Events

UK Sport has outlined its event plans for the next decade, with World Cups in football, rugby union, cricket and hockey among 97 competitions included on a list of hosting opportunities
Media

UK Olympic and Paralympic sports bodies have created a company to collectively manage their media rights, with the intention of exploiting them on an OTT platform developed in partnership with a media…
Governance

Sally Munday MBE has been appointed as the new chief executive of UK Sport, the body that oversees the investment of public and National Lottery money into British Olympic and Paralympic sport
Netball
Governance

UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl has announced her intention to stand to become the new president of the International Netball Federation
Multi-sport
Events

UK Sport and the Mayor of London have both given their backing to a potential bid to bring the Olympics back to the British capital as soon as 2036
Governance

UK Sport, the body that oversees the investment of public and National Lottery money into British Olympic and Paralympic sport, has revealed a list of major events for which hosting rights could be targeted…
Multi-sport
Governance

UK Sport has today (Friday) revealed that the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics has helped generate more than £130m (€146m/$170m), as it marks the six-year anniversary of the Games’ open…
Events

UK Sport, the body that oversees the investment of public and National Lottery money into British Olympic and Paralympic sport, has unveiled plans to invest almost £30m (€32.6m/$38.8m) in an effort to maintain the country’s position as a world-leading host of major sporting events into the 2020s.

Para Sport
Business

Dame Katherine Grainger, Britain’s most decorated female Olympic athlete, has been appointed as the new chair of UK Sport, the body that oversees the investment of Exchequer and National Lottery money into British Olympic and Paralympic sport.
Netball
Events

The International Netball Federation (INF) has awarded the hosting rights for its 2019 World Cup to the English city of Liverpool.

Badminton
Business

UK Sport, the national high-performance sports agency, has announced the launch of its first public consultation to determine the future of its approach to funding elite sport – a subject that has been the cause of much controversy in recent months.

Cycling
Events

British Cycling has announced that the velodrome used during London’s hosting of the 2012 summer Olympic Games will host the second round of the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) 2014-15 Track World Cup later this year.

Ice Skating

Glasgow has become the latest city to submit a bid to host the International Skating Union’s 2017 World Figure Skating Championships.

Basketball

UK Sport, the national high-performance sports agency, has announced that weightlifting will have its funding as a ‘World Class Programme’ restored, but the withdrawal of money from six other sports, including basketball, remains in place.

UK Sport, the national high-performance sports agency, has withdrawn its financial support of seven sports, including basketball, following its annual investment review of summer Olympic and Paralympic sports.