Paralympicsgb Chef De Mission Named

The British Paralympic Association has unveiled former swimmer Craig Hunter as the new ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Hunter said: ‘I am enormously proud and honoured to take on this role. It is a great opportunity to work with what is already an outstanding team and aim for even greater success in London’.??

‘Whilst everything that we do will be focussed on winning medals, I’m also hugely excited that ParalympicsGB’s performance can go beyond that and inspire many young people to get involved in sport and help shift attitudes towards disability’.??

Hunter has been involved in high performance sport for 13 years and excelled in his role as Chef de Mission to the English team at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games last October, and also managed England’s swimmers at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 and in Melbourne in 2006.
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In June, Hunter stepped down from managing Team GB’s Olympic preparation camp in Loughborough for reasons that were never fully explained.

??Hunter takes over the role as ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission from former BPA chief executive Phil Lane.

??Lane quit his post as BPA chief executive in February this year after ten years in the position and was the ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission at the last four Paralympic Games.

Lane led Britain to second-placed finishes on the medal table at both Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.

??Hunter has become the first major appointment from the new BPA chief executive Tim Hollingsworth, who was appointed in May.