Sports react to 2017 funding calls

Eliza McCartney clears the bar at the Rio Olympics. Her achievements have been recognised today with a boost to athletics funding. Photo/AP

High Performance Sport has spoken regarding their funding budget calls for next year.

Now national sports organisations have had an opportunity to respond.

Here are some summary snippets from affected sports:

ATHLETICS

2016 - $2.225m
2017 - $2.6m

Chief executive Linda Hamersley: "The increased investment demonstrates the confidence that HPSNZ has in our programme. It is also testament to the hard work and progress our programme coaches, staff and athletes have made over the last four years.

"It was pleasing to receive the news of both the increased investment and the elevation to Tier 1 from HPSNZ. We were confident we achieved the results for our programme to receive the increased funding that is required to sustain our performances from Rio, and grow towards an outstanding result in Tokyo.

CANOE RACING

2016 - $1.275m
2017 - $1.6m

Chief executive Mark Weatherall: "It's a testament to the work that has gone in on the water with Lisa Carrington's achievements over the past couple of years, and we've been able to build a bit of depth behind her with our women's programme."

CYCLING

2016 - $4.7m
2017 - $4.2m

Chief executive Andrew Matheson: "We understand the realities of operating in the high performance sport space, and that there can be consequences for not achieving the agreed targets with High Performance Sport New Zealand.

"We will cut our cloth to suit, yet ensure the critical building blocks are in place for Tokyo and 2024, and we are confident that we can continue to deliver outcomes at the highest level from our broader high performance programme.

"We have had a thorough and very honest debrief process and believe we have captured the areas where we have done well plus critically identified some shortcomings in our Rio campaign.

"The positive thing for us is that we will be reviewed in two years with the opportunity to rebuild our funding levels again in the important last two years to Tokyo."

SAILING

2016 - $3.45m
2017 - $3.7m

Chief executive David Abercrombie: "We are absolutely delighted with the increase. We believe it's in recognition of the great results in Rio and our conversion of Fast Track athletes into the Olympic programme, the strength of the Aon Fast Track and youth programmes and our talent identification programme.

"It's also a reflection of the quality of the governance of the organisation from the board down. We would like to think HPSNZ recognises what we are doing and have confidence we will be able to deliver medals at the 2020 and 2024 Olympics.

"The additional funding will allow us to transition the Aon Fast Track athletes into the Olympic programme more seamlessly to deliver medals. We are trying to add greater capability around the organisation to support the Olympic team. It will also allow us to employ a new high performance director as well as coaches to support the programmes which we haven't been able to do before.

TRIATHLON

2016 - $1.25m
2017 - $750,000

President Arthur Klap: "High performance sport is all about meeting the performance targets agreed upon and triathlon has not done that over the last four years. The Board fully expected to have funding reduced but do appreciate that HPSNZ has retained a level of funding that will enable us to show how our promising young athletes are tracking towards 2020 and 2024.

"We are an iconic New Zealand sport with a consistently high level of success over the last 30 years. We are confident that what we have learned from the last four years has put us in good stead for the next eight years. Quite rightly HPSNZ will want to see, over the next two years, that we have learned from the past and are implementing the right changes and our athletes are tracking well.

"With the full engagement of the triathlon community, I am positive that the future for triathlon is strong and that the next Erin Bakers, Rick Wells, Hamish Carter and Bevan Docherty's will emerge."