Women's rugby sevens: The women's sevens programme had a double win - receiving a boost in both money and status. The programme has been granted an additional $100,000 for both 2015 and 2016, lifting its overall funding to $1 million each year as it builds towards the 2016 Olympic Games. In addition, the women's sevens programme has been elevated to tier two status, underlining the team's medal prospects in Rio. This puts them on the same level as the men's sevens programme, as well as athletics, equestrian and netball.
Gymsports: Sports that sit outside the targeted list still have a chance of receiving a small slice of the pie by applying for campaign funding. A new sport will feature in that group next year, with young trampolinist Dylan Schmidt to receive $25,000 towards his programme. Schmidt won gold in the men's trampoline at the Youth Olympics in China this year. He gains assistance to help him compete internationally with the aim of building towards the Tokyo Olympics.
Losers
Men's hockey:
The Black Sticks men have paid dearly for a disappointing 2014 season, with funding for the men's hockey programme reduced to $750,000 for next year - a cut of $250,000. As yet no money has been committed for 2016. The Black Sticks men failed to meet their performance goals, finishing out of the medals at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and seventh at the World Cup. HPSNZ will review the funding for the men's programme at the end of next year with a possibility of reviving some of that funding if results improve.
Triathlon: Triathlon will lose $150,000 next year, but will still receive $1.25 million. While our New Zealand triathletes had a quiet year, HPSNZ was heartened by the direction Triathlon New Zealand is headed in after a dramatic overhaul of its High Performance programme.
"Triathlon is the right structure and is moving in the right direction, they have centralised and gone from a two to eight-year plan. They have a good high performance director and coaches in place," said HPSNZ chief executive Alex Baumann. "Even though they didn't reach all their key performance indicators, there is still potential. They just need to get more athletes in their system."
Swimming: Swimming New Zealand will take yet another hit next year, dropping $100,000 from the $1.5 million it received this year. But after the well-documented issues the organisation has faced, they can probably consider themselves lucky to receive only a modest reduction.
That was reflected in the response from Swimming NZ after yesterday's funding announcement, with chief executive Christian Renford expressing his gratitude that they had secured funding for the next two years.
"We have been on a year-to-year basis currently, so to have surety of funding through to the 2016 Rio Olympics is important for us."
