New Zealand has retained its Olympic equestrian funding despite missing out on medals in Rio and Britain has increased funding for the four year Tokyo cycle
High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) has announced a $35 million core investment programme for 2017, of which $1.8 million has been allocated to Equestrian for 2017 and 2018. While other sports in the Tier 2 level such as Canoe Racing and Women’s Rugby 7’s have been given increases in funding, the level of funding for Equestrian has remained the same as 2016
HPSNZ has also demonstrated a further commitment to the next generation athletes with more investment in the emerging talent PEGs programme which will give a new group of New Zealand athletes across targeted sports an opportunity to accelerate their development towards 2024
On the other side of the world, the British Equestrian Federation has also been allocated its Tokyo Funding (2017 – 2020) this month.
The announcement of the UK Sport funding for the four-year Tokyo cycle saw equestrian sport awarded a total investment (World Class Programme + Athletes Performance Award) of up to £19,635,180, representing up to £15,361,769 for Olympic sport and up to £4,273,411 for Paralympic sport. Equestrianism is one of 31 sports awarded funding for 2017-2021.
The funding is up from £17,9992,600 for the Rio cycle thanks to the success of the British Paralympic team, Nick Skelton’s individual gold in show jumping and the continuing success of British dressage (team silver and individual gold for Charlotte Dujardin)
