Chris Furber

Performance Director


Chris Furber is a high-performance leader with over 20 years’ experience working with some of the most successful sporting teams in the World. 

Chris began his career as a coach for British Cycling and attended the Beijing and London Games as Head Coach. 

In 2013 Chris moved to the role of National Performance Director at Para-Swimming and led the team to success at the Rio and Tokyo Games. 

Most recently Chris works as Performance Director for British Canoeing leading the success Paracanoe programme and Olympic Sprint teams. 

In the last 20+ years Chris has built teams and process that have supported athletes to over 550 international senior medals including 115 Olympic/Paralympic medals.