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About Own the Podium

In The Beginning

Canada has had three opportunities to host the world for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The first two Olympic Games launched programs to lift athlete performance (Game Plan ’76 and Best Ever ’88). After winning the right to host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in July 2003, Canadian sport was determined to focus on achieving ambitious performance goals.

Foundation of Own the Podium

In February 2004, Canada’s 13 winter National Sport Organizations, Canadian Olympic Committee, Canadian Paralympic Committee, Sport Canada, WinSport Canada and VANOC met to develop a plan that would become known as Own the Podium – a mission to harmonize all parties and provide top-up funding to high-performance programs to help Canadian athletes aim to be the number one nation at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and in the top-three of the gold medal count at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.

Launched in January 2005, Own the Podium recommended its first sport grants in advance of the 2005-06 season.

 

own the podium today

Own the Podium is a not-for-profit organization that prioritizes and determines investment strategies for National Sport Organizations in an effort to deliver more Olympic and Paralympic medals for Canada. Own the Podium’s largest contributor of funding is the Government of Canada with additional funding provided by the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), the Canadian Olympic Foundation, and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC).

Own the Podium continues to drive Canada’s high performance sport system forward in a quest to help more athletes and coaches win more medals in future Olympic and Paralympic Games.

For Canada to be a world leader in high performance sport at the Olympic and Paralympic Games

 

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Learn more about the current direction of Own the Podium, as we support Canadian athletes on their journey to the top of the Olympic and Paralympic podium.