{"id":3899,"date":"2022-12-20T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-type-takes-welsh-athletics-performance-role\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T22:36:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:36:44","slug":"chris-type-takes-welsh-athletics-performance-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-type-takes-welsh-athletics-performance-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Type takes Welsh Athletics performance role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">Chris Type was a member of Team GB at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Former Great Britain pole vaulter and Winter Olympics skeleton competitor Chris Type has been appointed head of performance at Welsh Athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">Type joins from Welsh Boxing, where he oversaw efforts at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">He has also coached the British skeleton team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">&#8220;It was clear that Chris&#8217; enthusiasm, passion and experience would be of huge benefit,&#8221; said Welsh Athletics chief executive James Williams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">He added: &#8220;We are committed to building a performance system that is sustainable and is focused on building the talent pool across the event groups.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".rnigu3i2na.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Type said: &#8220;Athletics has played such a huge part in my life and I&#8217;m relishing the challenge of delivering the new performance strategy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/64006740?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Type was a member of Team GB at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Former Great Britain pole vaulter and Winter Olympics skeleton competitor Chris Type has been appointed head of performance at Welsh Athletics. Type joins from Welsh Boxing, where he oversaw efforts at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. He has also coached the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}