Team GB are set a target of creating metropolis 2016 their most prospering overseas athletics by winning forty eight medals.
UK Sport has invested with £350m of public cash into elite sport since London 2012 and needs between forty seven and seventy nine medals once the Games begin on five August.
GB finished with sixty five medals at London 2012, surpassing its previous better of forty seven at the 2008 national capital athletics.
UK Sport desires a minimum of 121 Paralympic medals to beat the London 2012 total, setting the practice range as 113-165.
Paralympics GB won one hundred twenty medals (34 gold, forty three silver and forty three bronze) four years agone.
Liz Nichol, UK Sport chief, same there was AN "aspirational goal" to surpass each Olympic and Paralympic honor tallies from London 2012, however that it might be "incredibly challenging".
UK Sport director of performance Simon Timson antecedently same if the "stars align and things go perfectly", seventy nine Olympic medals is that the most GB may win.
In their home Games four years agone, Team GB finished third within the medals table behind USA and China with twenty nine gold, seventeen silver and nineteen bronze.
Sport statistics company Infostrada ar foretelling GB can end fourth within the athletics metropolis 2016 honor table with fifty one - eighteen gold, sixteen silver and seventeen bronze.
No host country has ever improved on its honor tally at successive summer Games.
Tim Hollingsworth, British Paralympic Association chief, same it had been causation its "most competitive team ever to the foremost competitive Paralympic Games ever".
He delineated the honor target as AN "ambitious one".
GB medals in 2012
Great United Kingdom finished third within the honor table at London 2012, with sixty five medals
GB won six athletics medals at the London 2012 athletics, as well as golds for Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford and Jessica Ennis-Hill. UK Sport has raised the honor target for metropolis to between seven and 9.
Cycling, one in all British sport's questionable 'medal factories', created twelve medals at the 2012 Olympic Games, however UK Sport expects between eight and ten in metropolis. London gold medallists Bradley Wiggins and Laura Trott ar a part of a 27-strong team.
Another prolific 2012 sport, rowing, brought 9 London Olympic medals and UK sport predict between six and eight now.
Tennis and golf - that aren't funded by UK Sport - are set honor targets of between one and 2 Olympic medals.
Andy Murray won singles gold and mixed doubles silver with Laura Robson in 2012, whereas golf is back within the athletics for the primary time since 1904.
The GB team is Danny Willett, Justin Rose, Charley Hull and Catriona Matthew, whereas the game has seen variety of its high stars pull out of the Games - citing issues regarding the Zika virus.
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