A complete of 35 para-athletes to obtain lottery funding for 2024/25

Right here is the checklist of people that UK Athletics are backing to battle for Paralympic podium locations in future

A complete of 35 athletes have been supplied membership to the Paralympic World Class Programme for 2024/25.

This follows a Paris Paralympics the place the British workforce gained 18 medals – six of them gold – at Paris 2024.

Hannah Cockroft, Sammi Kinghorn, Dan Pembroke, Ben Sandilands and Sabrina Fortune – the 5 British athletes that secured gold medals in Paris – are all chosen for the very best stage of lottery funding.

The programme is cut up into three totally different ranges of help – Podium, Podium Potential and Affirmation – with the objective of serving to athletes who the governing physique feels can win medals on the 2028 LA Paralympics or in 2032.

The subsequent massive purpose for athletes might be subsequent 12 months’s World Para Athletics Championships, with the vacation spot of the occasion nonetheless to be determined.

Ben Sandilands (Getty)

Head of the UKA Paralympic programme, Katie Jones mentioned: “Our thanks go to UK Sport and The Nationwide Lottery for investing within the Paralympic World Class Programme. We stay up for receiving affirmation of our LA funding later this 12 months in order that we will proceed to retain our place as one of many world’s main nations for para athletics.

“The help is crucial to serving to our para athletes proceed to be one of the best ready they are often for the main Championships and Video games and it’s important we proceed to construct on the successes of the previous few Paralympic cycles.”

The checklist of individuals chosen for Olympic WCP is already out, with the cohort of 65 athletes together with Keely Hodgkinson, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Matt Hudson-Smith.

The checklist of UK athletes receiving Paralympic WCP funding for 2024/25

Paralympic Podium (19) 

Kare Adenegan
Hollie Arnold
Olivia Breen
Jonathan Broom-Edwards
Hannah Cockroft
Aled Davies
Sabrina Fortune
Dan Greaves
Sophie Hahn
Sammi Kinghorn
Owen Miller
Anna Nicholson
Daniel Pembroke
Marcus Perrineau-Daley
Ben Sandilands
Zac Shaw
Daniel Sidbury
Zak Skinner
Thomas Younger

Paralympic Podium Potential (11) 

Fabienne André
Lydia Church
Nathan Maguire
Luke Nuttall
Funmi Oduwaiye
Jonnie Peacock
Eden Rainbow-Cooper
Kevin Santos
Ali Smith
Harrison Walsh
Melanie Woods

Paralympic Affirmation (5) 

Steven Bryce
Karim Chan
Barney Corrall
Maddie Down
Didi Okoh

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