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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 (the largest independent athlete support programme in the UK) celebrated 15 years of supporting local athletes with a special celebration at The House of Commons (2 November) attended by an array of industry, sporting and library... (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)

GLL marks 15 years of its Sport Foundation with a new cohort of 2,000 supported athletes and a new partnership with Switch The Play Foundation Charitable Social Enterprise GLL have announced 2,000 athletes will benefit from the 2023 intake of its GLL... (more)