UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl has declared Team GB on track to surpass the achievements of Beijing after setting new medal targets for Olympic sports in 2011.

No number has yet been put on Britain’s medal target for next year’s Games, with the goals set out more generally as exceeding the 47 medals won in Beijing across a wider range of sports.

This year, UK Sport have set the 19 sports that will participate in World Championships a minimum target of 30 medals and a maximum of 61, with Paralympic sports expected to bring home between 34 and 52.

The numbers include between five and eight medals at the athletics World Championships in Daegu, between five and 10 for cycling, four to six for rowing and five to eight for swimming.

In the year before Beijing, the equivalent competitions generated 42 medals for British athletes, and Nicholl is confident that can be bettered.

She told Press Association Sport: “We’re definitely on track. All the signs are good. We’re very confident that our targets for 2012 are still very realistic.”

UK Sport work closely with all 47 Olympic and Paralympic sports and monitor their progress three times a year through their Mission 2012 programme.

Nicholl accepts the likes of cycling or sailing will find it very tough to perform better in London than Beijing, and it is the challenge of spreading success across the board that UK Sport are particularly concentrating on.

She said: “Beijing was absolutely outstanding and it will be challenging to repeat such an outstanding performance, which is why what we’re now focusing on is more medals across more sports so we’re not just relying on the sports that did outstandingly at the last Games to keep on delivering at that level.”