NCI PATRON DAME KATHERINE GRAINGER APPOINTED TO CHAIR UK SPORT

24th April 2017. NCI Patron, Dame Katherine Grainger has been appointed as the new chair of UK Sport by Culture Secretary Karen Bradley, with the approval of the Prime Minister.

The former rower is Britain’s most decorated female Olympic athlete and the first British woman to win medals at five successive games and Dame Katherine will take up the role from 1 July 2017 with current chair Rod Carr due to step down at the end of his term on 22 April 2017.

Dame Katherine Grainger said: "I am absolutely thrilled to be appointed as the next UK Sport Chair. I am also very honoured to be joining the team at UK Sport and building on the success and commitment to excellence that I have witnessed and enjoyed as an athlete. I'm also acutely aware of the many challenging issues currently within sport and I hope to play a role in addressing them.”

Liz Nicholl, CEO of UK Sport, said: "Everyone at UK Sport is absolutely thrilled with the appointment of our new chair, Dame Katherine Grainger. Katherine brings with her a unique perspective, experience and skillset having been a part of UK Sport's World Class Programme from the outset, a multi medallist over five Olympic Games, an individual with a passion for sport and the impact it can have on changing lives for the better and also an academic. Our priority focus for the Tokyo Cycle is sustaining success while helping to create a more positive environment and culture for our athletes and athlete support personnel to perform at their best. Katherine is well placed to help us achieve that and we look forward to working with Katherine as UK Sport's new chair.”

Sports Minister Tracey Crouch said: "Dame Katherine is a peerless leader both on the water and off it. As one of our greatest ever Olympians, she has an outstanding understanding of high performance sport, and through her educational and charity work has a proven commitment to inclusion. I know she will be an inspiring chair of UK Sport”.

Dame Katherine Grainger has been a Patron and active supported of the National Coastwatch Institution since 2013.

(Photograph courtesy of UK Sport)

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