Coventry is set to become a centre of athletic excellence in the year it celebrates City of Sport with a new hub to keep the region active and a place of high performance training.

The Coventry University Future Health initiative will offer athletes and sports teams in the city everything from sports therapy and physiotherapy, to nutrition advice to help teams boost their performance, and keep athletes at the top of their game.

Launched on Wednesday, the hub will offer access to state-of-the-art facilities including an environmental chamber, sports therapy clinics, biometrics assessments, gait analysis using 3D motion capture, exercise physiology testing, and sport psychology suites.

Opened by city sports advocate and former chief executive of UK Athletics, David Moorcroft, the hub will focus on boosting sport and exercise as well as helping injured athletes return to full-time training.

As well as offering specialist training services previously only available through NHS partnerships all under one roof, the initiative will bring new opportunities for students to learn from some of the leading experts in exercise and nutrition.

Anne Coufopoulos, associate dean at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, said:

“We currently have excellent links with NHS services and physio practitioners where people can access our specialist services, but this will bring all of these services under one umbrella and make it much easier for anyone in the city to access this help.

“We will be bringing the best practitioners here to our incredible new facilities and offering up our spaces to the community, from high level amateur sports people to professional players.

“This is the first time we’ve offered all of this as a package and we hope to extend it to include placement schemes for students who can hopefully work with some of the specialists we will have working from our facilities.”

Currently, different services are available through referrals and via professional sports teams across Coventry and once established, Future Health will look to host a dedicated sports doctor and range of orthopaedic sports services.

Anyone interested in services can contact the team via the website at  www.coventry.ac.uk/study-at-coventry/faculties-and-schools/health-and-life-sciences/future-health