African Games champion Seydou Gbané and Aminata Charlène Traoré, who won a bronze medal at Rabat 2019, were the two taekwondo athletes to receive a cheque at a ceremony last month.

Traoré has reached the Olympics in the women's over-67-kilogram category, while Gbané has qualified in the men's under-80kg.

It is one of the nation's stronger sports and the two other Ivorian taekwondo players to have booked spots at Tokyo 2020 - Ruth Gbagbi and Cheick Sallah Cissé, who were not included in this round of funding - respectively won bronze and gold medals at Rio 2016.

Judoka Kobenan Koffi Krémé, rower Kouadio Franck N'Dri and four archers - Gnagne N'dri, Gbané Fatou, Mongomin Eyeni and Anne Marcelle Diombo - complete the eight athletes to have received financial assistance.

The CNO-CIV said that funding ranged from Olympic scholarships to one-off payments and, in the case of Krémé, to support the athlete's recovery from a head injury sustained at a competition in Cameroon.

The financial assistance amounts to more than CFA5 million (£6,600/$9,100/€7,600), according to the CNO-CIV.

At Rio 2016, the Ivory Coast won two medals - the aforementioned taekwondo gold and bronze - and they were the nation's first Olympic medals since Gabriel Tiacoh came second in the men's 400 metres at Los Angeles 1984.

Twelve Ivorian athletes went to the last Summer Olympics, competing across athletics, archery, aquatics, taekwondo, judo and fencing.