CANOEIST Bridgitte Hartley received the most funding of any individual athlete from the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee during the year ending March 31 2014.
The 2012 Olympic bronze medallist received R538620 from Sascoc's Operation Excellence (OpEx) programme operated by the macro body, which spent R12.6-million on more than 80 Olympic and Paralympic athletes across 16 codes.
After Hartley came swimming star Chad le Clos (R373422), triathlete Richard Murray (R359801) and javelin thrower Sunette Viljoen (R300335), according to the Sascoc annual report released at its AGM on Saturday.
All four delivered on their Sascoc investments this year, with Hartley getting to the podium at the canoe sprint world championships and Le Clos, Murray and Viljoen bagging medals at the Commonwealth Games.
Olympic sports received a combined R8.39-million from OpEx, with rowing getting the biggest share, a total of R2.16-million which, by the way, was slightly less than the R2.19-million annual salary paid to Sascoc CEO Tubby Reddy, as well as the R2.4-million in allowances paid to board members.
Sascoc's grants to rowing included R1.7-million for three crews, two of which won medals at their recent World Championships.
Next came athletics with R1.73-million, followed by swimming (R1.16-million), cycling (R912687), canoeing (R664407), triathlon (R430529), badminton (R417538), sailing (R264620), judo (R197813) and boxing (R145781).
Commonwealth Games medals were won in athletics (9), swimming (12), cycling (1), triathlon (2), judo (4) and boxing (1).
l Sascoc has moved back into the black after posting a R6.27-million surplus for the year ending March 31 2014.
The Olympic body has recorded a deficit of R4.36-million in the previous 12 months. The audited financial statements showed that revenue topped R125-million, down on R154-million previously.
More than R100-million of its income came from lottery grants, with government contributing R10.65-million and sponsors the rest.
Sascoc employees were paid nearly R15-million in all.
Other employees singled out in the report were the CFO (R1.37-million), general manager high performance (R1.13-million), and the general manager operations (R1.12-million). President Gideon Sam received R277361, vice-presidents Hajera Kajee and Les Williams R224885 each and the other nine R187404 each.
Canoeist coins it from OpEx project
CANOEIST Bridgitte Hartley received the most funding of any individual athlete from the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee during the year ending March 31 2014.
The 2012 Olympic bronze medallist received R538620 from Sascoc's Operation Excellence (OpEx) programme operated by the macro body, which spent R12.6-million on more than 80 Olympic and Paralympic athletes across 16 codes.
After Hartley came swimming star Chad le Clos (R373422), triathlete Richard Murray (R359801) and javelin thrower Sunette Viljoen (R300335), according to the Sascoc annual report released at its AGM on Saturday.
All four delivered on their Sascoc investments this year, with Hartley getting to the podium at the canoe sprint world championships and Le Clos, Murray and Viljoen bagging medals at the Commonwealth Games.
Olympic sports received a combined R8.39-million from OpEx, with rowing getting the biggest share, a total of R2.16-million which, by the way, was slightly less than the R2.19-million annual salary paid to Sascoc CEO Tubby Reddy, as well as the R2.4-million in allowances paid to board members.
Sascoc's grants to rowing included R1.7-million for three crews, two of which won medals at their recent World Championships.
Next came athletics with R1.73-million, followed by swimming (R1.16-million), cycling (R912687), canoeing (R664407), triathlon (R430529), badminton (R417538), sailing (R264620), judo (R197813) and boxing (R145781).
Commonwealth Games medals were won in athletics (9), swimming (12), cycling (1), triathlon (2), judo (4) and boxing (1).
l Sascoc has moved back into the black after posting a R6.27-million surplus for the year ending March 31 2014.
The Olympic body has recorded a deficit of R4.36-million in the previous 12 months. The audited financial statements showed that revenue topped R125-million, down on R154-million previously.
More than R100-million of its income came from lottery grants, with government contributing R10.65-million and sponsors the rest.
Sascoc employees were paid nearly R15-million in all.
Other employees singled out in the report were the CFO (R1.37-million), general manager high performance (R1.13-million), and the general manager operations (R1.12-million). President Gideon Sam received R277361, vice-presidents Hajera Kajee and Les Williams R224885 each and the other nine R187404 each.
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