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Introducing the Institute
At the sport scotland institute of sport our clear focus is on preparing scotland's best athletes to perform on the world stage.
We provide high performance expertise to sport and athletes in Scotland.
As the high performance arm of sportscotland, theinstitute is working with our partners to build greater success for Scottish sport. Our vision is Scotland consistently winning on the world stage.
Teams of expert coaches and practitioners work together to manage and deliver cutting edge programmes in high performance management, coaching, programme planning, sports medicine, sports science, strength and conditioning, performance analysis, talent and peformance lifestyle guidance.
We embrace a culture of winning and strive to create a high performance learning environment where innovation can thrive.
Our high performance network partners include - area institutes of sport, national governing bodies of sport, Commonwealth Games Scotland, UKSport, British Olympic Association and the British Paralympic Association.
The institute of sport was established in 1998 and currently supports around 230 athletes.
Keys to our success are the six area institutes of sport who provide high performance expertise to Scotland's potential world class talent and support Scottish governing body identified athletes as they progress along their sporting pathway.
To date, institute supported athletes have achieved an impressive array of medals at World Championship, Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games level. They have also attained many European champion and junior titles.