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UK Sport

World Class Programme

World Class Programme• Winning medals on the international sporting stage is incredibly tough

and the margins between success and failure become smaller with each passing year. To ensure that the UK’s most talented athletes have every chance of realising their potential, UK Sport has created the World Class Performance Programme.

• The Programme covers all summer Olympic and Paralympic sports, together with the high-performing winter Olympic sports and operates at three distinct levels:

• Has 3 Levels:

– World Class Talent

– World Class Development

– World Class Podium

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World Class Talent• Support the identification of athletes who have the potential to progress

through the World Class Programme.

• Funding provided through the programme will allow sports to identify the athletes with all the right attributes to ensure they can go on to compete effectively on the world stage.

• Raise the level of sophistication by which sports approach the identification of new athletes and examine ways in which talent, where appropriate, can be transferred across sports.

Talent - designed to support the identification and confirmation of athletes who have the potential to progress through the World Class pathway with the help of targeted investment

Talent - designed to support the identification and confirmation of athletes who have the potential to progress through the World Class pathway with the help of targeted investment

World Class Development• Comprises of sports that have demonstrated that they have realistic

medal winning capabilities for 2012.

• Olympic athletes at this level are typically six years away from the podium.

• Other sports not yet funded at Podium Programme level but where there is performance evidence that they have the potential to medal in the next Olympic/Paralympic cycle are eligible for consideration for funding at World Class Development level.

Development – comprising of athletes whose performances have suggested that they have realistic medal winning capabilities for 2012 and newly funded sports that are demonstrating the ability to be competitive by 2012 

Development – comprising of athletes whose performances have suggested that they have realistic medal winning capabilities for 2012 and newly funded sports that are demonstrating the ability to be competitive by 2012 

World Class Podium• This Programme will support sports with realistic medal capabilities at the

next Olympic/Paralympic Games.

• At this level, an assessment of realistic medal projections determines the required investment per sport

• Athlete places will be distributed to a sport based on a combination of the sport's: results at the last Games; competitive track record; project medal capability in the future; demonstrated ability to constantly produce athletes through the pathway.

• Support is provided through a performance programme with the governing body and an athlete personal award.

Podium - supporting athletes with realistic medal winning capabilities at the next Olympic/Paralympic Games (i.e. a maximum of four years away from the podium) 

Podium - supporting athletes with realistic medal winning capabilities at the next Olympic/Paralympic Games (i.e. a maximum of four years away from the podium) 

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The World Class Programme

Some 1,200 of the nation’s leading athletes at the Podium and Development levels alone, benefit from an annual investment of around £100 million, with many more involved at the Talent level. The Programme works by ensuring that athletes get the support – delivered through their sport’s national governing body – that they need at every stage of their development.

Some 1,200 of the nation’s leading athletes at the Podium and Development levels alone, benefit from an annual investment of around £100 million, with many more involved at the Talent level. The Programme works by ensuring that athletes get the support – delivered through their sport’s national governing body – that they need at every stage of their development.

Looking to the Future

Olympic Sports now await the decision as to where the funding will be focused towards success at Rio 2016

UK Sport have already launched their talent search campaign for Rio called Talent 2016