Olympic Futures Programme introduced for 2024-25

Right here is the checklist of athletes who UK Athletics are supporting within the hopes to succeed at upcoming Olympic Video games

UK Athletics has introduced 38 athletes chosen for the 2024-25 Olympic Futures Programme, a key initiative designed to help rising stars in athletics.

The programme, supported by Nike and delivered in partnership with the house nation athletics federations, offers alternatives for athletes to develop the talents and talents required for worldwide senior success.

It serves as a vital stepping stone for younger expertise, serving to them to transition on to the British Athletics’ World Class Programme, the place they’d have the profit to obtain Nationwide Lottery funding.

By being on the Future Programme, British Athletics have recognized that athlete as having the potential to win medals on the Olympic Video games in coming years.

Among the many athletes on the 2024-25 Future Programme are a number of returning faces, together with Charlie Carvell.

Carvell, who earned his first senior worldwide vest on the 2024 European Championships, was initially chosen for the Paris Olympic Video games however needed to withdraw attributable to damage.

Charlie Carvell (Getty)

Additionally remaining on the programme are Mia McIntosh, Nia Wedderburn-Goodison and Teddy Wilson, who all represented Nice Britain on the World Below-20 Championships in Lima.

The brand new consumption of 13 athletes contains notable figures similar to world under-20 medallists Ed Fowl, Charlotte Henrich and Jake Odey-Jordan, in addition to European under-20 cross nation champion Innes FitzGerald.

The programme has already helped launch the careers of athletes who’ve gone on to attain main worldwide success.

Jake Odey-Jordan (Getty)

These embody Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson, European bronze medallist and world indoor pole vault champion Molly Caudery plus Olympic relay medallists Charlie Dobson and Amber Anning.

UKA Head of Efficiency Pathways, Dan Wagner, mentioned: “It’s been nice to see the progress and improvement of present and former Futures athletes and their coaches lately and we sit up for monitoring this yr’s cohort.

“The Futures Programme focuses on partaking and understanding athletes and coaches and supporting them on their distinctive journeys all through completely different levels of their improvement, whether or not that’s attaining a private greatest, a GB & NI junior debut, or stepping as much as the senior ranks.

“Whereas some have beforehand skilled the help of the Olympic World Class Programme, we perceive that circumstances change and challenges occur. The purpose for these athletes is clearly to progress again by the senior ranks. That’s why it’s elementary for us to grasp every athlete’s arrange and plan, in order that we are able to provide the tailor-made help they should obtain their targets.”

A full checklist of the athletes are listed beneath:

Academy (retained)

Michael Allison (Thomas Dobbing, Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow); Success Eduan (Anita Richardson, Sale Harriers Manchester); Shannon Flockhart (Mark Vile, Cambridge & Coleridge); Kenny Ikeji (Fletcher Brooks, Basildon); Abigail Ives (Luke Gunn, Basildon); Mia McIntosh (Jake Awe, Harrow); Emily Newnham (Nicolas Dakin, Shaftesbury Barnet); Zara Obamakinwa (Mark Chapman, Blackheath & Bromley); Jeriel Quainoo (Ryan Freckleton, Blackheath & Bromley); Renee Regis (Clarence Callender, Shaftesbury Barnet); Ella Rush (Ryan Bailey, Amber Valley & Erewash); Nia Wedderburn-Goodison (Ryan Freckleton, Harrow); Teddy Wilson (Marvin Rowe, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Teddy Wilson [C] (Getty)

Transition (retained)

Sophie Ashurst (Kate Rooney, Sale Harriers Manchester); Alyson Bell (Anne Scott, Glasgow Jaguars); Charlie Carvell (Stewart Marshall, Telford AC); Kane Elliott (Tomas Lewandoski, Falkirk Victoria Harriers); Joe Ferguson (Richard Kilty, Sheffield & Dearne); Samantha Harrison (Rob Denmark, Mansfield); Ethan Hussey (Trevor Painter, Leeds Metropolis AC); Henry McLuckie (Terrence Mahon, Isle of Wight); Abigail Pawlett (Ashley Bryant, Trafford AC); Aleeya Sibbons (Coral Nourrice, Newham & Essex Beagles); Matthew Stonier (Sonia McGeorge, Invicta East Kent); Bekah Walton (Blackheath & Bromley)

Abigail Pawlett (Mark Shearman)

New to the Futures Programme

Sammy Ball (Rafer Joseph, Studying AC); Will Barnicoat (Tim Eglen, Aldershot, Farnham & District); Edward Fowl (Mark Pauley, Poole AC); Innes FitzGerald (Gavin Pavey, Exeter Harriers); Daniel Goriola (Tony Jarrett, Blackheath & Bromley); Charlotte Henrich (Nigel Stickings, Invicta East Kent); Ben Jefferies (Bristol & West); Ava Lloyd (Trevor Painter, Wigan & District); Sam Lunt (James Wright, Wirral); Jake Odey-Jordan (Victor Blackett); Eden Robinson (Christian North, Cardiff Archers); Jaden Smith (Shaftesbury Barnet); Gemma Tutton (Richard Pilling, Lewes)

Ava Lloyd (David Lowes)

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