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For decades, the sporting world has spoken about true inclusion. From the 28th to 30th of August, judo delivered it in Lausanne. The Vaudoise Arena staged an event that took the sport to new heights: athletes with and without disabilities competing in the same building, on the same tatami, on the same weekend and under the same banner. The Ecole Mont-Olivet Lausanne Grand Slam 2026, organised by the International Judo Federation (IJF) together with Swiss Judo, the City of Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud, with the support of the International Olympic Committee, welcomed 513 athletes from 77 countries to …
Somewhere right now, a child is practising a backflip in their back garden. Another is writing verses that haven’t found their stage yet. Another is coding something nobody’s asked for but everybody will want. United Through Sports wants to see all of it. As the road to the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games heats up, UTS has thrown open a global stage for young talent, and the only ticket in is a phone camera and thirty seconds of nerves. The Rise of Teranga launched on International Youth Day, August 12th, and the name says everything about what the goal is. …
On 5 August 2026, Julia Govinden, CEO of United Through Sports (UTS), attended the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Athletes Congress and Partners Reception with Bank of America in Singapore. Held alongside the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Regional Athlete Congress, the reception brought Athlete Leaders together with business representatives and long-standing partners of the movement. At the heart of the evening was a simple but important purpose: to listen directly to people with intellectual disabilities and learn from their experiences. The event marked another meaningful moment in the relationship between UTS and Special Olympics. Both organisations believe that sport can create …
United Through Sports is bursting with pride as our UTS Young Leader Husnah Kukundakwe made history at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, winning silver in the Women’s 100m Breaststroke SB8. This is Uganda’s first-ever Commonwealth Games medal in swimming, and the country’s first medal of the Games. It was also Uganda’s first Commonwealth Games medal in any Para sport, and its first in any sport outside athletics or boxing. A single swim and three pieces of history. A Race for the Ages Competing as Team Uganda’s co captain, the 19-year-old touched the wall in 1:26.20, holding off a fast-finishing Iona …
After finishing 11th worldwide at the 2026 CrossFit Games, UTS Young Leader Gia Griffith is emerging as one of her generation’s most exciting young athletes. Her success also carries a wider message for every girl who has been made to question whether strength belongs to her. At just 15, United States athlete and UTS Young Leader Gia Griffith left the 2026 CrossFit Games ranked 11th in the world in the Girls 14 – 15 division. The number captures the scale of her achievement, but not everything it took to reach it. A year earlier, in her first appearance at the …
