GB sets Olympic & Paralympic targets for Paris 2024

UK Sport expects Team GB to triumph betwixt 50 and 70 medals astatine nan Paris 2024 Olympics.

The UK’s precocious capacity athletics agency has besides group a target of 100-140 Paralympic medals this summertime - and a top-five decorativeness successful some badge tables.

At nan delayed Tokyo 2020 Games, Britain vanished 4th successful nan Olympic array pinch a full of 64 medals and 2nd successful nan Paralympic array pinch 124.

No strict targets were group for Tokyo because of nan effect of nan Covid pandemic, though UK Sport hoped British athletes would triumph betwixt 45 and 70 Olympic medals and betwixt 100 and 140 successful nan Paralympics.

At Rio 2016, GB vanished 2nd successful some nan Olympic and Paralympic badge tables, pinch 67 and 147 medals respectively.

That made it nan nation's astir successful overseas Olympics ever and its astir successful Paralympics since Seoul 1988.

In Tokyo, British athletes won medals successful 18 Olympic sports and 18 Paralympic sports, nan astir of immoderate federation ever.

"GB boasts 41 existent world champions successful Olympic disciplines and a further 61 successful Paralympic disciplines, highlighting nan immense talent crossed our sports," said Dr Kate Baker, UK Sport's head of performance.

"We’ve built a world-class strategy pinch superb group which has been fantastically good supported by authorities and The National Lottery truthful I’m assured British athletes will constitute nan adjacent section of British Olympic and Paralympic occurrence successful nan coming weeks."

Over nan people of nan Paris build-up, UK Sport has invested £315m of authorities and National Lottery costs into 53 Olympic and Paralympic sports.

A further £70m has been distributed straight to 1,100 athletes successful nan shape of jock capacity awards.

“In caller years, we’ve besides seen immoderate of our astir successful athletes utilise their sporting level to thrust societal alteration connected issues ranging from nan situation to LGBTQ+ authorities to intelligence health, to female assemblage image, and truthful overmuch more," said Dame Katherine Grainger, chair of UK Sport.

"Chasing nan dream of winning an Olympic aliases Paralympic title is incredibly reliable truthful I’m particularly proud of those who determine to spell a measurement further and usage their sporting occurrence to make a quality successful society."