Achievements

As well-earned celebrations continue to mark GB athlete successes at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the GLL Sport Foundation has been proudly counting the impact of their athlete support programme. The GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) is the UK’s largest... (more)

GSF Athlete Jess Bailey was competing at the Under-20 Athletics World Championships in Lima, Peru last week. Combining her training whilst doing her A-Levels, Jess set a new personal best to come eighth in the world! Competing in the 3000m race for T... (more)

GSF athlete Divine Iheme, the fastest 14-year-old in Britain and the world after the teenager smashed the world record for his age group during an athletic meet at Lee Valley (August 26). Divine ran an unthinkable 10.3 seconds, shaving off a staggeri... (more)

As the excitement from the Paris Olympic Games begins to settle, all eyes now turn to the Paralympic Games (28th August – 8th September), where 42 athletes supported by the GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) are preparing to represent Great Britain with prid... (more)

As celebrations continue to mark athlete successes at the Paris Olympics, the GLL Sport Foundation has been proudly counting the impact of its GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) - the UK’s largest independent athlete support programme.  An impressive group o... (more)

As the world gears up for the much-anticipated Paris 2024 Summer Olympic (26th of July – 11th of August) and Paralympic Games (28th of August – 8th of September), the GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) celebrates an impressive milestone. A remarkable cohort ... (more)

GSF ambassador, Melissa Reid, has triumphed in the recent ISA World Para Surfing Championships in Huntingdon Beach, California, coming home with a silver medal. Melissa, born and bred in Porthtowan, Cornwall, is partially-sighted and uses her best bu... (more)

23 year old tennis ace and GSF athlete Lily Mills, has been selected to compete in Australian Open’s Person With Intellectual Impairment Championships in Melbourne, Jan 2024.  This would fulfil a lifelong dream for Lily of playing in a Grand Slam.  T... (more)

GLL Sport Foundation stars Joe Clarke and Kimberley Woods as well as Mallory Franklin and Adam Burgess have been selected by the British Olympic Association (BOA) to represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - all four of these super talented... (more)

GLL Sport Foundation Ambassador Lucy Charles-Barclay set a new course record as she won the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii for the first time this weekend! Since her debut in Kona as a pro back in 2017, Lucy has had tremendous success at the I... (more)

The 2023 World Athletics Championships, the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. 21 past and present GSF athletes were representing Team G... (more)

The 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place from 19 to 24 September 2023 in London, United Kingdom at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, which is operated by GLL. The championships contributes as the qualification event for the 2024 Summ... (more)

2023 World Aquatics Championships The 2023 World Aquatics Championships, the 20th edition of the World Aquatics Championships, were held in Fukuoka, Japan, from 14 to 30 July 2023. 17 past and present GSF athletes were in attendance and came home wit... (more)

The 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games, informally known as Trinbago 2023, was a youth sporting event for members of the Commonwealth held in Trinidad and Tobago. The games were held from 4 to 11 August 2023, the games were the first to be held in the Car... (more)

GSF Athletes – Athletic Highlights UK Athletics Championship Manchester 2023 During a sensational weekend showcasing the UK’s athletics talent, 132 past and present GLL Sport Foundation athletes competed at the Manchester Regional Arena on the 8th a... (more)

European Games 2023 - 21 June to 2 July 2023 The 3rd European Games, informally known as Krakow-Maloplska 2023, was an international multi-sport event held from 21 June to 2 July 2023 in Poland. Over the course of these two weeks and with Paris 2024 ... (more)

The 2022 New Year’s honours list saw a host of GSF supported athletes awarded.  A total of 12 past and present GSF athletes have been awarded OBE’s and MBE’s. The honours highlight the success of athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympics and... (more)

Following on from Emily's success in Argentina last month, Emily took her second ITF Pro title – this time the Doubles in the $15k Shipyard Cup in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Partnering Caty McNally from the US, the pair saved a match point in round... (more)

Peter Vincent, GLL Sport Foundation supported athlete representing Great Britain and Hertfordshire University won a spectacular Bronze medal at the 2017 European University Championships in Coimbra, Portugal. Competing in the Over 100Kg division Pete... (more)

The GLL Sport Foundation are proud to support nearly 50 athletes that competed at the World Champs Team Trials at the weekend. To qualify for the World Championships, athletes that have the qualifying time and are placed in the Top 2 automatically qu... (more)

GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) supported transplant swimmers had huge success at the recent World Transplant Games. Liam Barnett, Janka Penther and Simon Randerson all competed for the GB swimming team and all came back with bags of medals and lifetime b... (more)

The World Transplant Games are unique games which celebrate what is possible in life after transplantation. Put simply, the games are the 'Olympics' for transplant recipients. Held every two years, this year the Games were hosted by the city of Malag... (more)

GLL Sport Foundation is celebrating the success of two young athletes at The Summer Youth Olympics 15-year-old Finn Hawkins from Cornwall (Windsurfing Bronze) and 17-year-old Caroline Dubois (Lightweight Boxing Gold) from London both receive sponsor... (more)

The £11 million new Tadworth Leisure & Community Centre will open its doors to the public for the first time at 6.45am on Monday 5 October 2015, providing fantastic, modern leisure and community facilities for the local community. The new state-of-th... (more)

[Image]Ismail, Ilays and Ibrahim are all GLL Sport Foundation supported athletes, from the same family and same sport. All three athletes are competing at a high level in taekwondo, travelling abroad frequently which adds up quickly. The triplets' cl... (more)

The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) will be the largest sporting event Australia will see this decade and the biggest sporting spectacular the Gold Coast has ever seen. As the first regional Australian city to ever host a Commonwealth Gam... (more)

The #TeamBetter Swim Challenge took place from Thursday 25th February until 1st March when the team of 13 each swam 31 miles in 6 days across the UK and NI, all in the name of raising money for Sport Relief. #TeamBetter travelled around 31 Better Lei... (more)

Thirty transplant swimmers will congregate at the London Aquatics Centre for the Transplant Sport Swimming Day on Saturday 23rd September. Aged 12 to 70 years old from around the UK, they have one thing in common - all have had life-saving organ or b... (more)

On Saturday 23rd September 2017, 24 transplant swimmers congregated at the London Aquatics Centre for the Transplant Sport Swimming Day. The swimmers, aged between 12 and 70 years old came from around the UK, and have one thing in common – they all h... (more)

Earlier this month, the 2nd Annual GLL Sport Foundation Golf Day took place at Panshanger Golf Club. The day is an excellent way to engage with the GSF sponsors directly to ensure that they continue to feel connected to the scheme and continue to su... (more)

It has been another busy period for past and present GSF athletes, as they begin to round up an exciting summer of sport! 48 Athletes headed to Germany for the European Championships Munich 2022, and another 19 have been in Italy competing at the Eur... (more)

GLL’s celebratory ‘Summer of Sport’ continues to inspire young people as 63 heroes realise their dream to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics The celebrations held across the UK for Team GB’s & Team Ireland’s Tokyo Olympic Games heroes have also been... (more)

Sporting achievements were celebrated last night (10 May) with West Oxfordshire District Council and its leisure provider GLL presenting awards to the District’s top sportspeople. Swimming made a big splash with Witney & District Swimming Club announ... (more)

Jacob has won multiple national titles as a 400m hurdler and multi-eventer throughout the age groups in his athletics career. Jacob has competed in athletics from a young age in many events but now specialises in the 400m hurdles which he is excellin... (more)

Thank you so much for supporting Jacob on his journey to becoming a GB Para swimmer and I hope he continues to keep improving over the coming years Jacob Chambers is a 14-year-old para swimmer based in Manchester. It’s Jacob’s dream to swim in the Gr... (more)

After a successful first season with my club Crystal Palace Triathletes (winning my age group in the London League) I decided to take the sport to the next level. I started triathlon nearly 3 years ago now. I had previously run cross country and play... (more)

My name is Emily Large. I am sixteen years old and I swim for Newcastle swim team as well as being a swimmer for Great Britain. Last season was a phenomenal season for me when I became European Junior Champion in Hungary for the 200m Butterfly, with ... (more)

Jim had a very successful 2015 season winning the European Cup and coming 15th in the World Youth Championships Jim is a successful youth climber with ambitions to break onto the senior circuit. Climbing has just been approved for the Tokyo 2020 Olym... (more)

On the 23rd May Tower Hamlets celebrated this year's GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) athletes at the newly reopened iconic Poplar Baths. This year 73 athletes in the borough received an award compared to 63 athletes last year. Athletes who were awarded Ac... (more)

On Tuesday 19th April the first London-based awards night took place at York Hall in Tower Hamlets. Tower Hamlets’ young talent was honoured at an awards ceremony celebrating their sporting successes. The GLL Sport Foundation are very proud to be par... (more)

GSF supported sister Archers on path to international success The 2015 Outdoor season is finally behind us and it’s been an absolute whirlwind! Although we are waiting for the Archery GB Junior Rankings to be announced the Senior Rankings have just b... (more)

New junior ice dance couple Leticia (Tish) Marsh (15 years old) and Anton Spiridonov (17 years old) recently qualified to take part in the International Skating Union (ISU) Junior Grand Prix Series representing the UK after less than a year skating t... (more)