GB Taekwondo To Receive More Than £8 million From UK Sport To Fund The Paris 2024 Cycle
18th December 2020
This morning, GB Taekwondo received confirmation from UK Sport of their funding and athlete numbers for the Paris 2024 cycle.
£8.3m was awarded for their Taekwondo and Para Taekwondo World Class Performance Programmes, both of which are based at the National Centre in Manchester.
GB Taekwondo Chief Executive Officer, Matt Archibald said: “We believe that this is a fair outcome in challenging times. It gives us the resource we need to support our athletes as they target success in Tokyo, Paris and beyond.
“We would like to thank UK Sport, the DCMS and The National Lottery for the continued support.”
GB Taekwondo fighters won gold (Jade Jones), silver (Lutalo Muhammad) and bronze (Bianca Walkden) at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Four years earlier at London 2012 world number one Jones became Britain’s first-ever taekwondo gold medallist while Muhammad was the first British taekwondo male to stand on the podium claiming bronze at -80kg.