EPISODE · Jan 23, 2025 · 21 MIN
On being a project leader and not a maintenance leader: Tony Sainsbury - 'Leading Stories' Part 2
from Leading Stories · host David Porritt & Richard Human
Send a textTony Sainsbury OBE has dedicated his career to disabled sports since the mid-1970s, when he began coaching at the Manchester & District Disabled Sports Club. He served as Great Britain's Paralympic Team Chef de Mission from 1980 to 1996, managing the team through five Summer Games. He helped establish the British Paralympic Association in 1989 and went on to work with multiple Olympic and Paralympic organising committees, including Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002, and London 2012, where he served as Villages General Manager. In 2016, he returned to the Chef de Mission role for the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team, leading the first-ever refugee and asylum seeker athletes in Paralympic competition.To learn more about David Porritt and Richard Human visit their LinkedIn pages.
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Send a text Tony Sainsbury OBE has dedicated his career to disabled sports since the mid-1970s, when he began coaching at the Manchester & District Disabled Sports Club. He served as Great Britain's Paralympic Team Chef de Mission from 1980 to 1996, managing the team through five Summer Games. He helped establish the British Paralympic Association in 1989 and went on to work with multiple Olympic and Paralympic organising committees, including Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002, and London 2012,...
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