Achievements

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)

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)

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)

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)