Team GB announces Performance Services team for Paris 2024
With less than a month to go until the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced Team GB’s Performance Services team that will provide the day-to-day support for the athletes in Paris this summer.
Led by the BOA’s Head of Performance Services, Greg Retter, and in addition to the sport’s own performance staff, the 43-person team includes 21 UK Sports Institute (UKSI) people, as well as staff from all of the other Home Country Sports Institutes. The team will form an integral part of the Team GB Headquarters (HQ) workforce and will be spread across the Olympic Village, as well as Team GB’s own performance venues: Preparation Camps and The Performance Lodge.
In addition to the Paris roles, there will be six Team GB HQ Performance Analysts who will be based at the Sport Wales Institute in Cardiff, supporting the on-ground operation during the Games.
Charlotte Cowie and Nicola (Nicki) Combarro have been appointed as Team GB’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Physiotherapist respectively. As Head of Medicine at the Football Association, Cowie is a UKSI Board Member and a consultant in sport and exercise medicine with 30 years’ experience working in elite sport and has worked at three Olympic Games. Combarro, resumes the role of Chief Physiotherapist having done so at Tokyo 2020 and more recently with England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She has previously worked with Team GB at four Olympic Games.
Niall Elliot, the BOA’s CMO, will head up the medical team for Team GB across their Preparation Camps in Saint Germain-en-Laye and Reims.
Greg Retter said: “This multi-disciplinary team brings together 43 highly experienced practitioners from across the UK high performance sport network and includes doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, performance scientists, performance analysts, nutritionists and (performance) chefs.
“Alongside the sports own performance staff, the HQ performance services team form an integral part of the support that the athletes receive from Team GB, and following a rigorous selection process I’m confident we have a highly skilled team of performance staff supporting our athletes and sports to deliver success at the Paris Games.”
Performance staff list in full:
HQ
• Louise Fawcett – Performance Services Manager Performance Lodge (UKSI)
• Laura Hanna – Performance Services Manager Prep Camp
• Faye Hodson – Performance Services Coordinator (UKSI)
Medical Officers
• Charlotte Cowie – Chief Medical Officer
• Kate Hutchings – Deputy Chief Medical Officer (UKSI)
• Niall Elliott – Lead Medical Officer Prep Camp
• Joe Amissah-Arthur – HQ Medical Officer
• Lisa Hyland – HQ Medical Officer (UKSI)
• Emma Lunan – HQ Medical Officer
• Derick Macleod – HQ Medical Officer
• Carrie McCrae – HQ Medical Officer
• Patrick O’Halloran – HQ Medical Officer
Nutrition
• Wendy Martinson – Lead for Performance Nutrition (UKSI)
• Carl Engleman – HQ Performance Chef
• Marcin Mazur – HQ Performance Chef
• Vicky Newbold – HQ Nutritionist (UKSI)
• Irene Riach – HQ Nutritionist
Performance Analysis (PA)
• Julia Wells – Lead for Performance Analysis (UKSI)
• Carys Jones – Performance Analysts UK Hub Lead
• Jack Fairweather – Performance Analysts UK Hub (UKSI)
• Emma Mosscrop – HQ Performance Analysts Paris
• Benji Palmer – HQ Performance Analysts Paris (UKSI)
• Helen Parrott – Performance Analysts UK Hub (UKSI)
• Jen Roach – Performance Analysts UK Hub
• Dave Thomas – Performance Analysts UK Hub (UKSI)
• Connor Wicheard – Performance Analysts UK Hub (UKSI)
• Paul Worsfold – HQ Performance Analysts Paris (UKSI)
Performance Science
• David Lasini – Acting Lead for Performance Science
• Liam Connor – HQ Physical Prep Coach (UKSI)
• Fiona Jordan – HQ Physical Prep Coach
• Adam Mattiussi – HQ Physical Prep Coach (UKSI)
Physiotherapy
• Nicki Combarro – Chief Physiotherapist
• Sian Knott – Deputy Chief Physiotherapist
• Jonny Bucke – HQ Physiotherapist
• Celia Gillbe – HQ Physiotherapist
• Paul Gould – HQ Physiotherapist (UKSI)
• Ian Horsley – HQ Physiotherapist (UKSI)
• Emma Levy – HQ Physiotherapist (UKSI)
• Craig More – HQ Physiotherapist
• Callum Repper – HQ Physiotherapist (UKSI)
Psychology
• Jess Thom – Lead for Psychology (UKSI)
• Danielle Adams-Norenberg – HQ Psychologist (UKSI)
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