SWIMMING TO RECEIVE £4.3M OLYMPIC BOOST
Swimming will benefit from additional UK Sport investment
of over £4.3m in the run up to the Beijing Olympics.
The extra funds were announced today by UK Sport as part
of an additional £65.3m funding package designed to
help sport in the run-up to London 2012.
In total, aquatic disciplines will receive an extra £8,220,000
worth of support and this has been greeted by British Swimming
Chief Executive David Sparkes.
"British Swimming welcomes this additional funding and
pays tribute to the work which UK Sport has done to secure
this vital injection of funds," said Sparkes.
"This extra support will now enable us to prepare for
the Beijing Olympics and begin to lay foundations for success
in 2012.
"We need to build on successes across all disciplines
at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and that will be our next
challenge now funding is secure."
Summer Olympic sports will receive an extra £58.8m
in the lead up to the Beijing Olympics and summer Paralympic
sports will get £6.5m.
UK Sport will review progress after the 2008 Beijing Games
before deciding how funds will be allocated in the four years
up to 2012.
Swimming will receive £16,699,000 Lottery funding for
the period 2006 to 2009, an increase of £4,329,000,
while diving has been awarded an additional £591,000
to bring total Lottery investment for the same period to £4,586,000.
Water Polo investment has risen by £1,824,000 to a
total of £3,133,000 while Synchronised Swimming will
receive an extra £1,476,000 giving a total of £1,617,000
over the three-year period.
The money is part of an extra £300m that Chancellor
Gordon Brown promised British sport in the run-up to London
2012 in his March Budget.
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