About Us - GoSports Foundation

Enabling Sports Excellence

At GoSports Foundation, we nurture the dreams of talented athletes by providing them with an enabling environment and timely support. We focus our attention on helping our athletes develop into holistic individuals who bring laurels to the country, uplift their communities, and inspire change.

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WHY SPORT?

We believe that sport has a critical role to play in building India.

This is why we invest in building sustainable support structures that enable talent to meet opportunities and platforms on which athletes can excel.

Our powerful network of partner organizations, academies, coaches, experts, athletes, and sports managers are on a journey to transform the way India looks at sports and the way the world looks at India.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

OUR AMBASSADORS

GOVERNING BOARD

Nandan Kamath Managing Trustee

Post Graduate - Harvard Law School & University of Oxford

Thomas Ollapally Trustee

Post Graduate - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Abishek Laxminarayan Trustee

Post Graduate - Cornell University

Unmish Parthasarathi Chairman of the Board

Non-Executive Director - GoSports Foundation

Post Graduate - University of Cambridge & London Business School

MEGHANA NARAYAN Board Member

Rhodes Scholar . Harvard Business School

Deepthi Bopaiah CEO

Chevening Gurukul Fellow, Uni. of Oxford & Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

SPORTS SCIENCE EXPERT

John Gloster Director of Sports Science

Former Indian National Cricket Team Physiotherapist.

Driven by a love for sports and humbled by our athletic pasts, we are on a mission to empower the next generation of sports stars.

OUR JOURNEY

2023

2008

Establishment of the Foundation by Nandan Kamath, Joseph Ollapally & Hakimuddin Habibulla

2010

Building Our Foundation: Leveraging Community Support for Aspiring Athletes

2012

From Champion’s Hand to Aspiring Athletes: Roger Federer’s Racquet Donation Fuels Program Launch

2013

The Athlete Education initiative was launched to empower athletes to make smarter decisions around their careers, which culminated in the first-ever Athletes’ Conclave

2014

First Major Corporate Partner, Aditya Birla Group : Supports Sporting Diversity and Excellence with GoSports Foundation’s Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme

2015

Launching the Para Champions Programme with IndusInd Bank to Level the Playing Field for Differently-Abled Athletes

2016

Sachin Tendulkar assisted GSF in honouring all of India’s Paralympic medalists, post the Rio Paralympics, including Murlikant Petkar, India’s inaugural Paralympic gold medalist from the 1972 Games.

2016

75% of India’s total medal tally at the Rio Paralympics was contributed by athletes supported by GoSports Foundation

2017

As Knowledge Partners to the BCCI, conducted workshops on team building and media management with the Women’s National Cricket team (Runner-up in the Women’s Cricket World Cup, 2017) and the Under-19 World Cup Men’s team.

2018

The International Shooting Sport Federation commissioned GoSports for the first of it’s kind handbook for shooting athletes all over the world

2018

First Steering Committee meeting held

2018

26% of India’s total medal tally at the Asian Games and Para Games was contributed by athletes supported by the GoSports Foundation

2019

Honoured with the National award ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar’ For Identification and Nurturing of Young Talent in Sports

2021

34 athletes supported by the foundation participated in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics and won 8 medals

2022

Unmish Parthasarathi joins Foundation’s Board of Advisors.

2023

68 athletes supported by the foundation participated in the Asian Games and Asian Para Games and won 30 medals

2024

200+ athletes across 12 Athlete Development CSR Funded Programmes.

2024

Meghana Narayan joins the Governing Board

TOGETHER, WE CAN

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