New Olympic and Paralympic sports to receive National Lottery funding
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... as more medals across more sports targeted in Tokyo 2020
- Increased investment in Olympic sports of over £1 million to fund medal potential athletes in new Tokyo events.
- Increased investment in new Paralympic medal events of over £2 million to strengthen our medal ambitions including funding para taekwondo, para badminton and para canoeing Va’a boat classes.
- Over £2.5 million for new innovative medal support plans to provide National Lottery funding to world-level athletes in Badminton, Archery, Karate and Sport Climbing.
- Tokyo Olympic medal target range increased to 54–92 (from 51–85).
- Tokyo Paralympic medal target range increased to 119–168 (from 115–162).
UK Sport today announced new investment into more British medal hopes and exciting new events and disciplines in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
The high-performance funding agency revealed as part of its annual investment review that athletes in Para Taekwondo, Para Badminton, Sport Climbing, Karate and BMX Freest...
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