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Sidney Merlin (1856–1952), sports shooter; John Middleton (1910–1971), footballer; Colin Milburn (1941–1990), cricketer; Gordon Miller (born 1939), Olympic high jumper; Alan Minter (1951–2020), world champion boxer; Ivor Montagu (1904–1984), British national team and founder of the International Table Tennis Federation
The Junior Sport Leadership Award was a qualification run in the United Kingdom by the British Sports Trust, [1] the operating name of Sports Leaders UK. References
Dame Marea Hartman (1994, DBE, [3] 1920–1994); British athletics sports administrator. Dame Elizabeth Mary Nicholl (2023, DBE, [4] born 1952); Nicholl was a British sports administrator, former netball player, chief executive of UK Sport from 2010–19, and is current president of World Netball.
UK Sport is the government agency responsible for investing money sourced from the National Lottery and the government, into Olympic and Paralympic sport in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport .
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Sport holds a central place in British culture, and the United Kingdom has played a key role in both the development and global spread of many sports. In the early stages of organized sport, the Home Nations (England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland) were instrumental in establishing formal rules and forming some of the earliest governing bodies, national teams, and domestic league competitions.
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given to the coach who was considered to have made the most substantive contribution to British sport in that year. The award is decided by a panel of over 30 sporting journalists.
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