Stuart Martin

Providing strategic leadership for BWL’s Pathway and World Class Programme. With the support of a great team I have had the privilege to lead and coach Great Britain and England to more than 100 international medals at senior and age group level including: Great Britain’s first ever Women’s Olympic medal at Tokyo 2020 England’s biggest ever medal haul at the Goldcoast 2018 Commonwealth Games England’s highest number of Gold medals ever at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the first men’s Commonwealth Champion since 2002 Great Britain’s first Women to win an Olympic medal at back to back Olympic Games ever and first athlete male or female to achieve the same feat since 1964 (Tokyo 2020 & Paris 2024) Multiple World championship medalists Multiple European champions and medalists Multiple Commonwealth champions and medalists This role is an evolution/promotion from my previous role of Performance Manager. In addition to my role in coaching and leadership I was heavily involved in the organisation’s submission for UK Sport and Sport England funding processes across 2 Olympic and Commonwealth cycles. The successful submissions involved the creation of the sport’s performance strategy leading up to 2032 Olympic Games and led to an increase UK Sport and Sport England funding: £400,000 during the Tokyo cycle (2017-2021) £3.35 million for the Paris cycle (2021-2025) £4.45 million (2025-2029) which was the highest increase in UK sport funding (by percentage) of any Olympic sport for the LA cycle

Since 2017 the team has experienced one of the most successful periods in British Weightlifting history with over 100 international medals won, its first Women’s World medals, European champions, Olympic medalists and record breaking performances at both Commonwealth and Olympic level.

Provide Strategic leadership for the Olympic and Commonwealth performance pathways for the sport of Weightlifting, and support the development of a performance pathway for Parapowerlifting.

Team leader and coach for the Paris 2024 Olympic games. Emily Campbell the sole Weightlifter for TeamGB returning for her second games and securing a second medal, this time bronze, against an even higher standard of opponent than Tokyo 2020. Emily became only the second British Weightlifter in Olympic history to win 2 medals for Great Britain and the first woman. A feat which hasn’t been achieved since 1964.

Team leader and coach for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. Team GB qualified a full team of 4 women for the games who all ranked top 10 in the world despite the difficult circumstances caused by covid-19. The largest team of women to ever qualify for Weightlifting in Team GB. The team finishing 3rd in the women’s medal table and returned with its first ever Women’s Olympic medal from Emily Campbell, a silver medal and the first Olympic medal for weightlifting for over 20 years.

Team leader and coach for the Birmingham 2022 commonwealth games. The team recorded a record breaking performance including 4 gold medals, 3 silver, 1 bronze, and 8 commonwealth games records across Weightlifting and Parapowerlifting. The teams performance was the most successful commonwealth games performance for the sport in 34 years

Team Leader and coach for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Goldcoast, Australia. The team delivered it’s most successful performance in commonwealth games history, Winning 6 medals in weightlifting and 3 medals in Para-Powerlifting. With the Women’s Weightlifting team topping the medal table.

Leading both a full time weightlifting programme for athletes competing at national and international standard and supporting the development of new lifters as they enter the sport. During my time at the club as lead coach the programme supported athletes to be selected for 7 international caps, break multiple british records, win more than 50 national championship medals, win 3 consecutive British Student Championships and was ranked as the Second best Team in england during a commonwealth games year.

Providing S&C coaching for the GB men’s pair, and contributing to the wider development of the multi-disciplinary team in the build up towards the Goldcoast commonwealth games in 2018.

Responsible for the strategic leadership of sport science & medical support services, TASS programme & Scholarship athletes. The role included line management of S&C coaches, Physiotherapists and student interns, including the design and implementation of individual development plans to improve staff performance

Delivering workshops & lectures in; - Strength & Conditioning, - Applied Sport Science, - Sports Rehabilitation, - Sports Nutrition, - Youth physical Development

Leading the Strength & Conditioning programme for TASS & Performance Athletes at Bournemouth University The role required development and delivery of a Sport Science & Medical programme for 600 athletes, across 20 teams and a variety of Olympic and Paralympic sports. Building strong partnerships with key stake holders, NGBs and local sports clubs was also essential to the role to ensure alignment to wider sporting system goals & objectives

Providing quarterly testing to help assess injury risk & track the progress of players, and deliver educational workshops for coaches, athletes and parents

Supporting the physical development of minor county players and providing match day sport science support to the team

Delivering rehab and S&C training programs for a variety of sports, ages and levels of ability.