How many of the GB female medal winners are not publically funded

[ChateauMargaux]

So far I know of Beth Schriever and Emily Campbell ... any more?

Happy to be corrected but I think although for a time Beth Schriever (or women's BMX more generally) was not funded by UK Sport, I believe she did receive funding from 2019 onwards, after she had already crowdfunded for herself.

She was put in a terrible position and shouldn't have had to rise 50k to support her dreams before UK Sport decided to cough up!

Schriever is publically funded, since 2019. In a world with limited funds, would you spend it on BMX?

It was weightlifting, not female weightlifting that lost it's funding and again, what would you have cut instead?

Thank you for the clarification on both of those points...@ExpressDelivery and @Touloser.

I would love to see how to total pot is split across sports, by sex and by number of grass roots players versus medal winners... I am not making better suggestions, I am just trying to see what information is out there.. and yes.. I am curious to seeing there is a female bias.

FOI the Olympic committee. Be specific in the request. Could ask for annual total amounts given to each/any British athlete from 2017-2021 fin. years

That's a great idea re FOI request.
As the previous poster says, make sure you're very specific, as FOIs are often rejected for being too vague, or for the data being too difficult to collect within a reasonable timescale. They also very rarely meet their timescales!

If it's funding through UK Sport (who distribute lottery funding) their website does breakdown what they give to each sporting body, which might be a good starting point for you.

Women’s rugby wasn’t funded iirc.

Some of the track and field athletes don't receive funding - Keely Hodginson for example though I am sure she will go on funding from 2022.

And Jess Judd though I think she opted out due to too many strings attached.

Some are on some level of funding from other sources eg the London Marathon funds athletes, but there are quite a few who receive nothing from the main programme of British Athletics.

I don't know how it works for other sports.

This is a good place to start

www.uksport.gov.uk/sports

www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport

FOI to UK Sport, not the BOA. UK Sport fund elite athlete personal awards and NGBs for elite, while Sport England fund grassroots. All the BOA really is, is a glorified travel agent.

@TheDrsDocMartens

Women’s rugby wasn’t funded iirc.

Yes, they crowd funded. Some of the NZ team donated.

There's no funding for the men's team now as well, though I think they were funded for this Games. I could be wrong.

I would love to see how to total pot is split across sports, by sex and by number of grass roots players versus medal winners

Grass roots players aren’t funded. Funding is only for those with the potential to medal, specifically olympic medals.

However there are no checks and balances, or criteria for funding. It is solely down to the discretion of the performance director of whichever sport.

So they can fund a 13 year old who has never competed internationally, and not fund a 19 year old with multiple European/World medals for GB. It’s down to who the believe will win the olympic medal.

Most sports you’ll notice, don’t publish lists of who they fund.

Why would there be public funding for rugby? It's a wealthy sport.

@ExpressDelivery

Why would there be public funding for rugby? It's a wealthy sport.

I would have expected funding from Rugby association rather than crowd funding though.

@ExpressDelivery

Why would there be public funding for rugby? It's a wealthy sport.

It's wealthy if you are a professional but not for everyone outside of it. Plus it's 7s which is very different

There should be funding for Women’s Sevens and bmx riders and weightlifting because a government that can spend nearly £9million destroying perfectly good passports and £43 million of public money on a bridge that was never built could instead value a range of sports creating role models, facilities and working proactively to improve the fitness of our younger generations who are the fastest, the least fit and heading towards lower life spans than their parents.

Awesome support from just one man. Further down says he's helped 20 competitors across the years.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-58088648

There’s apparently a few people who do this.

I’ve also heard of a few professional footballers supporting women’s/Deaf teams who don’t get the funding the men’s teams get.

I suspect a lot of the less well known/high profile sports probably aren't funded:
Synchronised swimming
Shooting
Archery
Walking
to name but four.

Just divided by sport and doesn’t account for how long the funding was in place eg, bmx only got funding at the last minute .

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58112331

The equestrian sports do list funded riders, they publish the lists each year. Presume it will be on their websites somewhere.

@MrsFin

I suspect a lot of the less well known/high profile sports probably aren't funded: Synchronised swimming Shooting Archery Walking to name but four.

Walking is an event in athletics so would fall under their funding. And I think Tom Bosworth is funded.

The UK funded all sports for the London 2012 Olympics but then stopped it for subsequent games where there is no chance of us winning medals (e.g. handball, water polo, basketball). There is a debate about how the funding is divided up and it has changed from the winning of medals. There's now a 'medals and more' catchphrase which is supposed to take into account mental health rather than previously there was an attitude of medals at any cost.

This may be useful.

@MrsFin

I suspect a lot of the less well known/high profile sports probably aren't funded: Synchronised swimming Shooting Archery Walking to name but four.

Archery and Shooting were well funded.

Yes Tom Bosworth is funded. So is Callum Wllkinson who finished about 10th in the 20k race walk. The list funded by UK Athletics is here.

thepowerof10.info/athletes/athleteslookup.aspx

But there are other schemes such as London Marathon, Youth and Junior Talent Programmes and some counties give funding to young athletes (but it's £250 a year sort of funding, nothing you can live on).