New Pregnancy Guidance from UK Sport

The webinar will be delivered by UK Sport and will discuss the newly released Pregnancy Guidance for Elite sportswomen.

Being a parent and an elite athlete should not be mutually exclusive. To ensure support is provided for athletes who wish to have a child whilst they are a member of a high-performance programme, UK Sport has developed Pregnancy Guidance for both Athletes and National Governing Bodies (NGBs).

Constructed from an extensive consultation period with individuals and organisations within and outside high performance sport, and supported by medical and academical research, the guidance aims to put a mother’s and baby’s welfare at the heart of it. As a distributor of public funding UK Sport has a responsibility to ensure that NGBs provide a duty of care to athletes and best practice in the management of athletes’ health and wellbeing, as well as performance pre-, during and post-pregnancy.

For any questions ahead of the session on Tuesday 23rd November (12pm-1.30pm), please do not hesitate to contact Alex Newman (Sport Integrity Manager) and Andri Rauber (Athlete Investment Manager) at pregnancyguidance@uksport.gov.uk.