UK Sport, the body which funds elite Olympic and Paralympic sport, convened a panel to consider Minichiello’s eligibility to receive public funding after the August 2022 ban.

The UK Sport panel’s initial ruling on funding was challenged by Minichiello, but UK Sport announced today an appeal panel found Minichiello’s behaviour amounted to misconduct and brought himself, his sport and UK Athletics into disrepute.

The panel declared him ineligible to receive public funds or publicly funded benefits.

Minichiello was Ennis-Hill’s coach when she won heptathlon gold at the London Olympics in 2012. She said in August 2022 that the findings against her former coach were “shocking and upsetting” but said she had never been on the receiving end of any inappropriate treatment.

Minichiello had denied the charges against him but UK Athletics said at the time that the findings, which amounted to a large number of breaches of its coach licence terms over a 15-year period, “constitute gross breaches of trust.”