But cycling, rowing, sailing and swimming have been rewarded for their success in Beijing where they helped Britain to their best Olympics outside London, winning a record 47 medals, including 19 gold, as Team GB finished fourth overall.

 

They have all been given extra money to help them prepare for London.

 

Cycling, which won a record 14 medals in Beijing, including eight gold, have been given a £4.8 million rise for 2012 to £26.9 million.

 

Rowing, which won six medals, including two gold, will receive the most money - £27.4 million, a £1.4 million increase.

 

Sailing, who finished top of the medals table in their sport for the third consecutive Olympics with six medals, four of them gold, will get £23.3 million - £1.1 million more than they did for the Beijing Olympiad - while swimming, whose two gold medals were both won by Rebecca Adlington, get £25.6 million.

 

That is £5 million more than for Beijing.

 

But athletics, who failed to meet its medal target of winning five medals in Beijing, claiming only four, suffer a £1.4 million cut and will now have only £25.1 million.

 

Overall a total of £246.8 million have been invested and 19 sports or disciplines have received funding increases, including basketball and hockey, who feared they would suffer cutbacks.

 

But eight Olympic sports or disciplines have yet to receive a confirmed figure for how much they will have to prepare for 2012.

 

They are beach volleyball, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

 

They are currently funded through to March 2009 and UK Sport is hoping to access extra revenues of funding to help close the gap.

 

The funding decisions were made on UK Sport's "no compromise" investment strategy, which targets resources primarily at those sports and athletes most likely to win medals.

 

A total of 14 Paralympic sports will also share in funding worth £45.6 million, a significant increase on the £29.5 million they received for the Beijing cycle.

 

A total of £292 million has been invested in the Olympics and Paralympics.

 

Sue Campbell, the chair of UK Sport, said: "As an organisation dedicated to high performance, we are very clear about the ultimate outcomes of our investment: success at the highest level and a system wide legacy to ensure continued success beyond 2012.

 

"That is what we are funding.

 

"While it is disappointing that we are not today able to offer the full level of resources to all sports, we can only invest what we have available to us.

 

"We will now do everything we can to deliver additional funding into sport and help close the gap, including sitting down with every affected sport and determining how best we can ensure their programmes continue to be supported.

 

"We are sticking with the Mission - we will not give up anybody.

 

"The decisions made by our Board were not easy, but they were right.

 

"The additional funding confirmed yesterday by [Culture Secretary] Andy Burnham is very welcome given current economic conditions, and brings a high degree of certainty in an otherwise uncertain world.

 

"With a shortfall in the overall funding available we had to make some tough calls but we did so in the knowledge that our 'no compromise' strategy is not only understood by sport but was also the basis of our success in Beijing."

 

HOW MUCH EACH SPORT WILL RECEIVE FOR 2009-2013 (2005-2009 FIGURE)

 

OLYMPIC SPORTS

 

Archery £4.4 million (£2.8 million)

 

Athletics £25.1 million (£26.5 million)

 

Badminton £8.7 million (£8.6 million)

 

Basketball £8.7 million (£3.6 million)

 

Boxing £8.0 million (£5.0 million)

 

Canoeing £16.2 million (£13.6 million)

 

Cycling £26.9 million (£22.1 million)

 

Diving £6.6 million (£5.8 million)

 

Equestrian £13.6 million (£11.7 million)

 

Gymnastics £10.3 million (£9.0 million)

 

Hockey £14.1 million (£9.8 million)

 

Judo £7.6 million (£6.4 million)

 

Modern Pentathlon £6.4 million (£5.9 million)

 

Rowing £27.4 million (£26.0 million)

 

Sailing £23.3 million (£22.2 million)

 

Swimming £25.6 million (£20.6 million)

 

Synchronised Swimming £3.4 million (£1.6 million)

 

Taekwondo £4.4 million (£2.6 million)

 

Triathlon £5.3 million (£5.1 million)

 

TOTAL £246.8 million (£235.1 million)

 

PARALYMPIC SPORTS

 

Archery £2.1 million (£1.2 million)

 

Athletics £6.6 million (£5.4 million)

 

Boccia £2.3 million (£614,761)

 

Cycling £3.8 million (£1.7 million)

 

Equestrian £3.6 million (£2.4 million)

 

Judo £1.3 million (£725,000)

 

Powerlifting £1.1 million (£691,100)

 

Rowing £2.3 million (£1.3 million)

 

Sailing £1.7 million (£1.2 million)

 

Shooting £2.1 million (£576,912)

 

Swimming £10.0 million (£6.9 million)

 

Table Tennis £1.6 million (£909,590)

 

Wheelchair Basketball - men £3.5 million (£2.8 million)

 

Wheelchair Rugby £2.3 million (£979,528)

 

Wheelchair Tennis £600,000 (£803,000)

 

TOTAL £45.6 million (£29.5 million)