Written question asked by Andy Reed (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 January 2000, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 1 February 2000. It was answered by Baroness Hoey (Labour) on Tuesday, 1 February 2000 on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the sports eligible for the World Class Performance Programme. - List given.

Answer: Mr. Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the sports eligible for the World Class Performance Programme. [107654] Kate Hoey: These activities are as follows: Aikido American football Angling Archery Arm wrestling Association football Athletics Aussie rules Badminton Ballooning Baseball Basketball Baton twirling Bicycle polo Billiards and Snooker Bobsleigh Boccia Bowls Boxing Camogie Canoeing Caving Chinese martial arts Cricket Croquet Crossbow Curling Cycling Disability sports Dragon boat racing Equestrian Fencing Fives Flying Gaelic football Gliding Golf Gymnastics Handball Hang-gliding and Paragliding Highland games Hockey Horse racing Hovering Hurling Ice hockey Ice skating Jet skiing Ju jitsu Judo Kabaddi Karate Kendo Korfball Lacrosse Lawn tennis Life saving Luge Modern pentathlon Motor cycling Motor sport Mountaineering Movement, dance, exercise and fitness Netball Orienteering Parachuting Petanque Polo Pony trekking Pool Quoits Racketball Rackets Racquetball Rambling Real Tennis Roller hockey Roller skating Rounders Rowing Rugby league Rugby union Sailing/Yachting Sand/land yachting Shinty Shooting Skateboarding Skiing Skipping Snowboarding Softball Sombo wrestling Squash Street/skater hockey Sub-aqua Surf life saving Surfing Swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tang soo do Tenpin bowling Trampolining Triathlon Tug of war Unihoc Volleyball Water skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Yoga.

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