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Alistair Dickson appointed as new Performance Manager

Canoe Wales • Oct 07, 2020

Canoe Wales is pleased to announce the appointment of Alistair Dickson to the role of Performance Manager. Dickson will take up his new role at the beginning of January 2021.

Dickson joins the organisation after 8 years at the RYA, where he was High Performance Manager & Interim CEO for RYA Cymru Wales for 4 years and Director of Sport Development at RYA HQ for 4 years. During his time as High Performance Manager RYA Cymru Wales, the Welsh sailing performance programme was credited as being the most successful in the UK and developed a number of athletes who have gone onto represent GB at World and Olympic level. More recently, as Director of Sport Development he has helped to develop the RYA’s support of clubs, volunteers and grass roots sailing and has led a re-development of the RYA’s OnBoard programme (youth development) to better promote the character development which takes place during participation in outdoor sports like sailing.

On his appointment, Dickson said:

"I am really excited to be joining Canoe Wales and bringing my experience of sailing to other water sports like canoeing and kayaking. Paddlesport will undoubtedly bring different challenges to sailing but it’s an area I’ve always been interested in and the need to focus on developing the right culture and environment remains the same. I look forward to working with a highly motivated team of coaches, clubs, volunteers and other Canoe Wales staff members to carry on and build on the successes the performance programme has experienced up until now."

Jen Browning, CEO of Canoe Wales, said:

"We’re incredibly excited to welcome Alistair to Canoe Wales to help us to build on our success to date in training Welsh, GB and World Champions and ensure our ‘athlete first’ approach develops not just phenomenal athletes, but role models and leaders."

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