Led by Steve Cram, the former world mile record holder and Olympic medalist, the English Institute of Sport (EIS) is a nationwide network of sport science and sports medical support services, designed to foster the talents of our elite athletes.

Services are offered from nine regional hub sites and a network of satellite centres within England, ensuring that elite athletes have local access to support services.

The expert support services available to athletes out of the EIS High Performance Centres includes sports medicine, physiotherapy, soft tissue therapy, nutrition, psychology, biomechanics, performance analysis, talent identification, strength and conditioning and performance lifestyle.

The EIS service providers work in close consultation with the national governing bodies of sports, performance directors, coaches, and the athletes themselves. Our service providers support athletes not only on home soil but also when they travel to overseas camps and competitions at the request of the national governing body.

The sports we support include all summer Olympic sports with the exception of tennis and men's football, all Paralympic sports, and a limited number of Winter Olympic and English sports.

The majority of the athletes we support are those who are UK Sport Lottery funded.

The EIS is grant funded through the UK Sport Lottery Fund.