Ed McDonald returns to the World Class Programme for 2024 having been on it for the first time in 2023, thanks to his successes as a junior.
A fine year in 2022, saw McDonald win kayak team bronze at the World Junior Championships in Italy alongside Sam Leaver and Oscar Wyllie.
At the European Junior Championships the same year, McDonald would taste individual success as he won bronze in the kayak cross in the Czech Republic.