Chris Walker Email & Phone Number

Providing event project planning, event management and event delivery services within the major sports event industry. A wealth of experience in delivering international and domestic sporting events covering elite, para and mass participant formats. Key Projects- 2024 World Triathlon Para Series Swansea - Event Director- 2023 Wheelchair Rugby European.

- Lead the coordination, delivery and management of Field of Play operations planning for the Road Event courses (Road Cycling, Marathon and Triathlon). - Develop the detailed operational plans for each course to encompass: traffic management, barrier, emergency service access points, course stewarding and volunteers to ensure safe and successful delivery.

- Providing results service for British Athletics televised athletics events. - Work on high profile events such as Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix, London Anniversary Games and Invictus Games.

• "We very rarely get to ride point-to-point, but Yorkshire’s taken the bull by the horns and hopefully this can be a blueprint for how para-cycling events are run worldwide." – Dame Sarah Storey.
• Responsible for delivering the inaugural international para-cycling event at the UCI Road World Championships, including project plan key milestones and readiness reporting.
• Created a new para-cycling competition format, overseeing sport competition scheduling, technical route and venue… Show more
• Created a new para-cycling competition format, overseeing sport competition scheduling, technical route and venue design, collaborating with both National and International Federations.
• Managed relationships with four host town venues, five local authorities and numerous multi-agency teams to ensure safe operations for athletes, support teams and members of the public, with a Field of Play covering.
• Acted as Sport Bronze within the Event Control for both the para-cycling and subsequent UCI Road World Championships, resolving any sport competition related issues through C3 structures; such as adapting the Elite.

• AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds – Sport Operations Manager - 2017 & 2018
• Embedded within the core LOC team, I managed British Triathlon’s key deliverables across several functional areas and liaised directly with other key event stakeholders such as the International Triathlon Union, Leeds.
• I was first point of contact on the ground for the Event Director, overseeing all sport and venue operations for elite and mass participation racing.
• I confirmed all… Show more AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds – Sport Operations Manager - 2017 & 2018
• I confirmed all infrastructure and sport equipment required for the multiple venues and extensive race route, supporting procurement processes, installation and site management during the event.
• Recruitment and training of all event workforce, including volunteers as well as line managing the Event Operations Assistant.Accenture Mixed Team Challenge Canary Wharf – Event Director - 2018

• ITU World Triathlon Leeds - Sport Venue Manager - 2016.
• U20s Festival - Event Director - 2015 and 2016.
• Tri Liverpool - Event Manager - 2016.
• Windsor Duathlon - Operations Manager - 2016

Sheffield, United Kingdom

- Working the biggest global pro-am charity cycling event.

Sheffield

Bsc, Sport, Physical Education And Coaching Science, Class 1

Msc, Sport Business Management, Distinction

A Levels, Pe (A), Maths (A), Biology (B), Gcse'S: 2 A*, 10 A, 1 B