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Sheffield’s two-year countdown to the 2012 Olympics begins With two years to go until the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Sheffield is celebrating a year of outstanding achievements and is firmly focused on maximising opportunities for the city in the two year countdown until the games start in 2012. Extensive work has been carried out to help ensure that Sheffield’s offer is recognised both nationally and internationally, as well as putting in place a number of initiatives to directly benefit the people of Sheffield. On the 27th July, exactly 2 years until the start of the games, four volunteers from Sheffield were selected to become the regional faces of LOCOGs volunteering campaign for London 2012 and two of the Sheffield Academy of Young Leaders in Sport (SAYLS) volunteers will travel to London to raise awareness of the integral role over 70,000 volunteers will play in the delivery of the games. There have a number of major developments and achievements throughout the year, these include: • Sheffield’s golden girl
Jessica Ennis became World Heptathlon Champion in August 2009, closely followed by winning the World Indoor Pentathlon title in March 2010. A further 4 Sheffield based athletes were also crowned World Champions in 2009. • The 4 Great Britain high performance training centres in boxing, diving, volleyball and table tennis committed themselves to being based in Sheffield in the run up to 2012. These 4 sports alone have generated between £1.5 £2 million into the local economy. • Sheffield’s Major Sports Events and 2012 Programme for 2009/10 has generated between £6-8million in to the local economy, as well as having one of its events the 65th English Open Table Tennis Championships voted best in the world by the international federation. • While other cities are aiming to host International training camps in 2012, Sheffield is ahead of the game and already hosting them now (with over 20 hosted so far). This year we will have hosted Japan volleyball who are number 5 in the world.
A four nations boxing camp with Great Britain, France, Kazakhstan and China. US boxing, Canadian and Swedish Paralympic teams for wheelchair rugby. Canadian Paralympic sports of wheelchair basketball and goalball. • The links between raising participation and delivering international sporting events have been improved by giving over 4000 Sheffield children the chance to try diving, table tennis and goalball for the first time. Cllr Roger Davison, Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Tourism for Sheffield City Council, said: “Sheffield has already benefitted significantly from London 2102. The games are a catalyst that will help to increase participation in sport, benefit the economy of our city and help to raise its profile. “It is important that we recognise the considerable amount of work that is taking place to maximise these opportunities and understand the different ways that the people of Sheffield can benefit right up until 2012.” The next major event that will take place in the city is The British Gas
asa National Age Group Championships and British Gas asa National Youth Championships, taking place at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre. Over 40 City of Sheffield swimmers have qualified to take part in the event which attracts 1000’s of visitors to the city. The athletes competing in these Championships hold the key for the future success of British Swimming, and many of the GB Olympic squad embarked on their Olympic journey competing in asa National Age Group and Youth Championships over the years. Sheffield City Council launched it’s annual ‘Sheffield - Lighting the Flame for Sport’ strategy on 27th July with details of the many achievements to date and highlights from the past year also important developments and aspirations for the next two years. The ultimate goal of the strategy is to leave a lasting legacy for Sheffield as a result of the London 2012 games. For more information, visit www.sheffieldlightingtheflame.co.uk
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