Crisis-hit UK Athletics in fresh storm over allocation of vital funding to athletes

UK Athletics have come underneath fresh hearth over their distribution of funding to athletes.

The governing physique named 67 athletes on their World-Class Programme on Monday, with every taking between £10,000 and £28,000 in help from the National Lottery.

Coaches have questioned the method behind the allocation of UKA funding with contradictions from an e mail from the efficiency director Sara Symington (above)

However, a quantity of coaches have questioned the method behind the allocation of the cash, with one flagging that their athlete was not given a efficiency overview prior to their funding choice. 

According to the coach, this contradicted an e mail from the efficiency director Sara Symington on September 17.

The coach informed Sportsmail: ‘My understanding is that end of season reviews are always meant to be done prior to the selection meeting. 

‘It is an opportunity for athlete and coach to raise any information they may want fed into that meeting. Can you really claim a process is informed and robust without those meetings?’

The newest criticisms come at a time when a number of senior athletes are bitterly disillusioned with the best way UKA is being run, together with the efficiency hierarchy, which is rebuilding after their worst Olympics since 1996.

There has been immense disharmony on the teaching aspect, with cash-strapped UKA telling all coaches on consultancy offers in September their positions had been being terminated on September 30. 

Bizarrely, the casualties of that manoeuvre included Andy Young, regardless of the Scot main Laura Muir to an Olympic silver medal. 

Sportsmail understands he was contacted by CEO Joanna Coates on September 11 and informed he would obtain a brand new deal, however stays in the darkish 5 weeks on. 

Coach Andy Young (above) has been axed regardless of Laura Muir’s Olympic silver medal in Tokyo