British Cycling, with the support of UK Sport, has appointed Positive Dynamics to assist in the recruitment of a performance director for the Great Britain Cycling Team.

Appointing a performance director is a part of the Tokyo strategy submitted to UK Sport in February and will enable the Great Britain Cycling Team to build upon the success the team enjoyed this year and provide greater support to performance staff and athletes.

This will include an initial scoping exercise followed by an open recruitment process and further updates will follow in due course.

Programmes director Andy Harrison, who stepped in to lead the Great Britain Cycling Team for the last phase of the Rio cycle during which the team achieved their ambition of finishing top of the medal table at the Olympics and Paralympics, will remain in overall charge until a performance director is appointed.