Here is the list of people who UK Athletics are backing to battle for Paralympic podium places in future
A total of 35 athletes have been offered membership to the Paralympic World Class Programme for 2024/25.
This follows a Paris Paralympics where the British team won 18 medals – six of them gold – at Paris 2024.
Hannah Cockroft, Sammi Kinghorn, Dan Pembroke, Ben Sandilands and Sabrina Fortune – the five British athletes that secured gold medals in Paris – are all selected for the highest level of lottery funding.
The programme is split into three different levels of support – Podium, Podium Potential and Confirmation – with the goal of helping athletes who the governing body feels can win medals at the 2028 LA Paralympics or in 2032.
The next big aim for athletes will be next year’s World Para Athletics Championships, with the destination of the event still to be decided.
Ben Sandilands (Getty)
Head of the UKA Paralympic programme, Katie Jones said: “Our thanks go to UK Sport and The National Lottery for investing in the Paralympic World Class Programme. We look forward to receiving confirmation of our LA investment later this year so that we can continue to retain our place as one of the world’s leading nations for para athletics.
“The support is essential to helping our para athletes continue to be the best prepared they can be for the major Championships and Games and it is essential we continue to build on the successes of the last few Paralympic cycles.”
The list of people chosen for Olympic WCP is already out, with the cohort of 65 athletes including Keely Hodgkinson, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Matt Hudson-Smith.
The list 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 Young
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 Confirmation (5)
Steven Bryce
Karim Chan
Barney Corrall
Maddie Down
Didi Okoh
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