Chris Hoy benefits from Lottery funding
Since 1997, UK Sport has operated World Class programmes designed to support our leading Olympic and Paralympic athletes in their mission to win medals at the world's biggest sporting events. With only limited funding available, money has always been directed at those sports and individuals that can demonstrate that they have the capability to deliver medal winning performances when it matters.
With the benefit of lessons learned over the Sydney and Athens Olympiads, this approach has been developed into one of 'No Compromise', which means that the best athletes ultimately benefit from the resources they need if they are to realise their medal ambitions.
Funding is targeted at athletes via their sport's governing body, through the World Class Pathway programmes. Podium and Development level athletes will be surrounded by a performance programme that includes coaching, training and competition support, medical and scientific services and access to the best facilities that the UK has to offer.
In addition, recognising that succeeding in the majority of Olympic and Paralympic sports effectively means a full time commitment on behalf of athletes, UK Sport makes a contribution towards living and sporting costs via a means-tested Athlete Personal Award.
The schemes are funded by a mix of Government Exchequer and National Lottery money and the amounts made available to each sport can be found via the links below.
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