The organisation are due to be given $762,000 (£497,000/€671,000), slightly more than the $666,800 (£432,000/€584,000) they were awarded last year.

The announcement comes despite the United States failing to win a medal at the recent International Judo Federation (IJF) World Championships.

“We are ecstatic and honoured that the USOC recognises the work that our organisation, coaches and athletes have done in these last three years and is providing us with the sort of financial support that will assure our top athletes be in the medal hunt in less than a year from today,” Nading said.

“We believe this speaks very highly of the respect our athletes have earned in that I know many other National Governing Bodies not only did not receive an increase in funding, but in some cases their funding was cut.”

A further $20,000 (£13,000/€18,000) has been added to USA Judo’s athlete support fund, which rewards American judokas who win medals at a Grand Slam, Grand Prix, Continental Open or Pan American Championships.

This year, 14 United States judokas also received Elite Athlete Health Insurance, which covers these athletes throughout the calendar year for all health-related needs.

Olympic champion Kayla Harrison, who won gold in the under 78 kilograms category at London 2012, received the highest amount of money in direct athlete support in 2015 as she was given $70,000 (£46,000/€62,000).

“Our goal is to maximise efficiently the funds we get from the USOC by providing travel support to the selected number of athletes that have shown to have the possibility to earn the necessary points to make the IJF qualifying Olympic roster,” said USA Judo director of high performance Eddie Liddie, who won Olympic bronze at the 1984 Games on home soil at Los Angeles.

“We work closely with our Olympic coach, Jimmy Pedro, the High Performance Committee members and the individual athlete’s coaches, in order to identify the events that our athletes need to compete in, and assure that the funding is in place.”

The funding for USA Judo’s Paralympic athletes will remain at $85,000 (£55,000/€75,000) for Rio 2016, though they have benefitted from USOC offering further performance prize funds of $10,500 (£6,850/€9,200) to athletes who finished in the top six places at the International Blind Sports Federation World Championships in Seoul, South Korea.

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