Britain On Track For Record Medal Haul
The 2012 London Olympic Games is set to be a record medal campaign for the Great Britain team – according to UK Sport chief executive, Liz Nicholl.
Nicholl told the BBC: ‘We’re definitely on track. We’re very confident that our targets for 2012 are still very realistic, you don’t put £100m of public funding into success without striving for the ultimate performance’.
Team GB finished fourth in the medal table for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, their best performance since the London Games of 1908 – with 47 medals, of which 19 were gold.
Great Britain’s paralympians also excelled in 2008, finishing second with 42 gold medals.
GB athletes have been set a target of 30 to 61 medals for the World Championships this year – and while no medal target has been announced for London 2012, the goal is to replicate the performance in Beijing, and finish in the top four in the medal table.
Nicholl added: ‘Expectations are enormous, but aspirations are enormous, we were tremendous in Beijing so it will stretch us. But we will have home advantage, more resources than ever before so there’s a real opportunity for the sports and they are ambitious’.
