adminBritish athletes, including javelin thrower Goldie Sayers, have questioned the £90,000 bonus awarded to UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos.
The 46-year-old saw his salary increase by £93,788 in the 2012-13 tax year.
Sayers tweeted: “How can Neils de Vos award himself a pay rise for 2012/13 whilst we are losing voluntary coaches every year due to lack of funds?”
However, the figure is understood to be a one-off incentive which was agreed when De Vos took the job in 2007.
De Vos’s salary is expected to return to a smaller figure in the current tax year.
British Athletics met their medal target of five to eight at the London 2012 Olympics, winning six through Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, Robbie Grabarz, Christine Ohuruogu and Jessica Ennis-Hill.
Later that year, a number of coaches were made redundant as the governing body moved to centralise its coaching support at the National Performance Institute at Loughborough.
Ennis-Hill’s coach Toni Minichiello was one of the coaches who was released, after declining to make the move from Sheffield, but he rejoined the set-up late last year.
Kelly Sotherton, who won Olympic bronze at Athens 2004, responded to Sayers’ tweet, describing the news as a “joke”.
Middle distance runner Helen Clitheroe also responded, tweeting: “unreal” while hammer thrower Sarah Holt tweeted: “Unbelievable”. – BBC Sport
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