Meet the “Team Deloitte” athletes vying for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024
Worldwide Olympic Partner Deloitte has announced Team Deloitte - an inspiring team of 25 elite athletes – including 19 Deloitte professionals, as well as Deloitte alumni and sponsored athletes – who it will be supporting on the road to the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024.
Featuring an exciting blend of seasoned stars and promising newcomers, the Team Deloitte roster includes 12 Olympians and four Paralympians, as well as a host of athletes who are vying for their first appearances at the Olympic or Paralympic Games. The diverse line-up features athletes from across the world, representing 14 countries in 15 different sports – from rowing, para canoeing, hockey and sailing to the new Olympic sport of breaking.
With 19 of the company’s professionals represented, the selection of Team Deloitte for Paris 2024 marks the first time that a Worldwide Olympic Partner has been able to support so many of its own employees on their journey to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“As we look toward Paris 2024, we’re thrilled to introduce Team Deloitte, an extraordinary group of dual-career Deloitte professionals and elite athletes who exemplify the unique qualities required to succeed in both sport and business. We are excited to support and celebrate their journey to qualify for Paris 2024,” says Joe Ucuzoglu, Deloitte Global CEO.
The Team Deloitte athletes include Olympic champions Félix Denayer, Alexander Purnell and Abe Wiersma and Paralympic champions Curtis McGrath and Pieter du Preez. Four-time Olympian Denayer was part of the Belgian hockey teams that won gold at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and silver at Rio 2016. Australian rower Purnell formed part of the coxless four that won gold in Tokyo, while Wiersma also topped the podium in Tokyo as part of the Netherlands’ quadruple sculls boat and was crowned world champion in 2019. At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, McGrath made history by becoming the first paracanoe athlete to win two gold medals at a Paralympic Games. Du Preez won the para cycling men’s time trial H1 race at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and was the first quadriplegic to complete an Ironman.
Also joining the line-up is Singaporean sailor Kimberly Lim – a three-time Asian Games gold medallist – and Canada’s Tiffany Leung, who is bidding to compete in the first-ever Olympic breaking event.
Seven athletes are hoping to make their Olympic and Paralympic debuts, including Ingibjörg Grétarsdóttir (Iceland, taekwondo), Charalambos Charalambous (Cyprus, archery) and Ian Dors (USA, para triathlon).
Deloitte joined The Olympic Partner (TOP) programme in 2022, forming a “partnership with purpose” with the IOC that leverages Deloitte’s considerable business acumen to help the IOC realise the possibilities of its strategic roadmap for the future, Olympic Agenda 2020+5, and its vision to build a better world through sport.