Just weeks after winning a bronze medal on his World Cup debut, 2014 SportsAid recipient Matthew Gibson, 18 from Lymm in Cheshire, has been named as one of nine SportsAid athletes who will compete for Great Britain at this month’s track cycling world championships which get underway in Paris on February 18.
SportsAid athlete Elise Christie (TASS alumna) won two gold medals at the ISU European Short Track Championships on January 24 to claim the European titles over 500m and 1,500m.
Later this week the winner of the BBC’s Young Sports Personality of the Year Award will be announced at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow where nine SportsAid athletes will be eagerly awaiting the result.
It is a remarkable fact in itself that 15-year-old Emma Wilson won windsurfing’s under-17 and under-19 world championship titles in the US in October but when you consider that she did so as one of the event’s youngest competitors, her achievement seems truly exceptional.
Three SportsAid athletes won bronze medals at the World Junior Diving Championships last week in Penza, Russia.
With the Commonwealth Games officially opening today we take a look at which SportsAid athletes will be in action in Glasgow over the next 12 days.
After a fantastic season and winning the junior European championships British diver Kyle Kothari is named SportsAid's athlete of the month.
We are pleased to announce that modern pentathlete Francesca Summers, 18, from Dorking has become SportsAid's June athlete of the month
SportsAid alumni Mallory Franklin and David Florence win three golds each for GB at the slalom canoeing world cup event this past weekend.
SportsAid netballer Helen Housby may have just booked her place at the Commonwealth Games this summer after a break-through year with Manchester Thunder that ended with the goal of a lifetime and her first call-up to the England squad.
Great Britain’s junior women’s artistic gymnastics team made up of SportsAid alumni has completed a stunning 2014 European Championships by winning two gold, one silver and one bronze medal in the apparatus finals on the final day of competition.
Fantastic effort by SportsAid disabled triathlete Chris Goodwin who has won the TR16A class at the British Paraduathlon Championships at the Rockingham Speedway in Northamptonshire.
Rising taekwondo star Abigail Stones supported by SportsAid has just become junior world taekwondo champion.
A full roundup on all the supported SportsAid athletes who competed at the British Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool. Led by rising stars Nile Wilson, Amy Tinkler and Alexander Buesnel who won all-around titles.
GB para swimmer Thomas Hamer, who is supported by SSE, has been named SportsAid athlete of the month after being the first S14 swimmer to break the two-minute barrier in the 200m freestyle event.
Rising GB gymnastics star Lucy Stanhope becomes the all-around champion at the Espoir English Championships this month.
Fifteen-year-old Kent skier Millie Knight finished fifth in the visually impaired slalom and giant slalom at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games which have just ended in Sochi. In this exclusive interview with SportsAid she explains what is was like to become the youngest winter Paralympian in the history of British sport and carry the flag at the Games' opening ceremony.