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British Athletics has announced the 41 athletes included in its World Paralympic Games program for 2025-26.
The WCP is funded by the National Lottery Initiative supported by UK Sport, and supports athletes preparing for major international tournaments, including the Paralympics.
Three athletes – Melanie Woods, Lydia Church and Nathan Maguire – were promoted to podium level, the highest of the three funding levels.
Woods won two bronze medals for Great Britain at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi this year, with the 31-year-old Scot claiming her first two world medals in the T54 1500m and T54 800m.
Church and Maguire also won World Championship bronze medals in the women’s F12 shot put and men’s T54 1500 meters respectively.
Five world champions were included, with Hannah Cockroft, Ald Sion Davies, Daniel Pembroke and Sabrina Fortune taking the podium, and T44 100m gold medalist Victoria Levitt also making the Paralympic tier three confirmation list.
However, 2020 Paralympic champion Owen Miller, who missed out on defending his men’s T20 1500m title at the 2024 Games due to injury, is not included in this year’s programme.
Didi Okoh, the women’s T63 100m bronze medalist at the 2024 World Championships and Paralympics, has been promoted to the list of potential runner-up finishes while Bree Cronin, Dan Gladman, Bebe Jackson, Jade Hall, Finlay Menzies and Arthur Mills have also been added at Paralympic confirmation level.
Katie Jones, head of the UK Athletics (UKA) Paralympic programme, said it would help “continue building momentum as we work towards the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics and beyond”.
Great Britain won seven gold, five silver and 13 bronze medals to finish seventh at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships.
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