Conference Streams

Professor Margo Mountjoy, IOC Medical Commission Games Group, WADA Deputy Foundation Board Member  

Mental Health for Elite Athlete Support

Few topics have moved faster up the agenda than the mental health of athletes competing in elite sport. This panel addresses our preparedness for addressing the anxieties and complexities facing the athlete, officials and coaches. And it includes an exclusive insight into the lengths professional golf is going – on the DP World Tour – to aid its stars. 

• Dr Will Wynter-Bee, European Tour Golf Group  

Mental Health for Elite Athlete Support

       Moderator: David Eades, Moderator and MC 

• Dr Stuart Miller, Senior Executive Director, Integrity & Legal, ITF  
• Dr Will Wynter-Bee, European Tour Golf Group  
• Gregor Swinney, Current Scottish National Champion and recordholder in the 50m Butterfly, Commonwealth Games medallist 

Round Table : Enhancing Sport Performance of Female Athletes

Part 1: Sporting activity for the athlete must be as much about health and fitness as is it about results in a world where the goals are so high and the pressure often so acute. From ACLs to REDs, we consider the big issues facing women in sport, the dilemmas they must face, but also the progress being made in making health and performance part of the same equation.  

Part 2: An opportunity to shine the light on reproductive health issues for women athletes, addressing the spectrum from ‘menstrual myth busting’ to reproductive choices and returning to sport post pregnancy. As we reach parity for sport participation for women, how are we adapting to accommodate women in sport? 

(With scene setter from Professor Kirsty Elliott-Sale, Professor of Female Endocrinology and Exercise, Manchester Metropolitan University) 

Moderator: Professor Margo Mountjoy, IOC Medical Commission Games Group, WADA Deputy Foundation Board Member  

• Dr Niall Elliott, MBE Chief Medical Officer, British Olympic Association
• Professor Kirsty Elliott-Sale, Professor of Female Endocrinology and Exercise, University of Manchester
• Annamarie Phelps CBE OLY, British Olympic Association, European Rowing, European Olympic Committees
• Gillian Sanders, Triple Olympian triathlete for South Africa, Integrity Manager, World Sailing
• Evert Verhagen, Medical Research Adviser, UEFA, and Professor, UMC University 
• Pippa Woolven, Founder, Project RED-S

Moderator: Ben Avison, Editorial and Conference Director, Host City

• Kris Gemmell, Head of Marketing and Commercial, World Triathlon 
• Georg Spazier, CEO, ITS GmbH, Innsbruck World Masters Games
• Nicola Turner MBE, CEO, United By 2022  
• Alana Vought, Program Manager, Olympic and Paralympic Games Brisbane 2032, City of Gold Coast