Jobs in elite professions like law, the media, politics and finance have always been dominated by ex-students of fee-paying schools. Traditionally, sports have been no different. But in 2016, not only did Team GB’s athletes make Rio the UK’s most successful away games for over a century, they also challenged the dominance of the privately educated.
Analysis by the Sutton Trust found that although the proportion of privately educated athletes in Team GB in 2016 was higher than in 2012 — up from 20% to 28% — the proportion of medallists educated at comprehensives grew. Less than one third of Team GB’s 130 medallists attended fee-paying schools, an improvement from the London 2012 Olympics, when 36% of Team GB’s winners were privately educated.
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