ROLE & STRUCTURE
OF THE WORLD CLASS
PERFORMANCE
PATHWAY
HOME LEARNING – PEER
ASSESSMENT
UK Sport
• Works in partnership with the home country sports council
and other bodies to lead UK sport to world-class success
• Distributes exchequer funding & money from the National
Lottery
• Has 3 major goals:
1. World class performance
2. Worldwide impact
3. World class standards
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• Write down the key points about the 3 UK Sport goals
1. World class performance
2. Worldwide impact
3. World class standards
To gain success…
• A ‘no comprise’ approach is taken – targets resources to
those sports/athletes capable of gaining medals
• Individual sports all allocated funding through the World
Class Performance Pathway Programme
World Class Performance Pathway – the template
by which support is provided to elite performers,
depending on how close they are to winning medals
at international level
In 2006…
UK Sport
Sport Councils
High performance pathway
at UK & England level
including:
• World Class Development
Programmes
• TASS schemes
• Athlete Personal Awards
• English Institute of Sport
• Retained responsibility for
the development of their
own performers up to
World Class
Performance Pathway
standard.
UK HIGH PERFORMANCE PATHWAY
World
Class
Podium
World Class
Development
Talent Recruitment &
Confirmation
Home Country Talent
Development Systems
Funding
Applied for & delivered by…
• NGB’s
• National Institutes of Sport
• British Olympic Association &
the Paralympics Association
Section 1 – Milestone
• Characteristics of world games
• Impact of world games on individual, country &
government
• Stages of Sport England's sport development continuum
and the factors influencing progression from one stage to
another
• Social & Cultural factors required to support progression
from participant to performance and excellence
• Role & structure of world class performance pathway