Here is a list of people who UK Athletics is backing to challenge for the Paralympic podium in the future.
A total of 35 athletes have been offered membership in the 2024/25 Paralympic World Program.
This follows the Paris Paralympics where the British team won 18 medals at Paris 2024, including six gold.
Hannah Cockroft, Sammy Kinghorn, Dan Pembroke, Ben Sandilands and Sabrina Fortune, the five British athletes who secured gold medals in Paris, have all been selected for the highest level of lottery funding.
The program is divided into three different levels of support – podium, podium potential and confirmation – with the aim of helping athletes who the governing body believes can win medals at the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games or 2032.
The next big goal of the athletes will be next year’s World Para-Athletics Championship, the destination of which has not yet been decided.
Ben Sandilands (Getty)
UKA Paralympic Program Manager Cathy Jones said: “Our thanks to UK Sport and The National Lottery for investing in a world-class Paralympic programme. We look forward to confirming our investment in Los Angeles later this year so we can continue to maintain our place as one of the world’s leading para-athletics nations.
“The support is essential to help our Paralympic athletes continue to be best prepared for major championships and games, and it’s vital that we continue to build on the success of the last few Paralympic rounds.”
The shortlist for the Olympic WCP has already been released, including a group of 65 athletes Keeley Hodgkinson, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Matt Hudson-Smith.
List of British Paralympic Athletes in WCP Funding 2024/25
Paralympic podium (19)
Kare Adenega
Holly Arnold
Olivia Breen
Jonathan Broome-Edwards
Hannah Cockroft
Aled Davies
Sabrina Fortune
Dan Greaves
Sophie Hahn
Sammy Kinghorn
Owen Miller
Anna Nicholson
Daniel Pembroke
Marcus Perrinault-Daley
Ben Sandilands
Zach Shaw
Daniel Sidbury
Zach Skinner
Thomas Young
Paralympic Podium Potential (11)
Fabien Andre
Church of Lydia
Nathan Maguire
Luke Nuttall
Funmi Oduwayie
Johnny Peacock
Eden Rainbow-Cooper
Kevin Santos
Ali Smith
Harrison Walsh
Melanie Woods
Paralympic Endorsement (5)
Stephen Bryce
Kareem Chan
Barney Corral
Maddie Dawn
Didi Okoh
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