UK Sport to begin independent review into UK Athletics


FILE PHOTO: World Athletics Championships - Doha 2019 - Women's 200 Metres Final - Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar - October 2, 2019 Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith celebrates after winning gold REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's under-fire track and field governing body UK Athletics (UKA) will be the subject of an independent review after a turbulent 15 months, UK Sport announced on Tuesday.

In that time UK Athletics, which received 27 million pounds in UK Sport funding for the current Olympic cycle, has lost its CEO, performance director and chair and managed only five medals at the world championships in Doha, the lowest total since 2005.

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