The session of the Ministry dedicated to the results of nine months of 2012 said that the special programme on training of the Uzbek athletes to Olympic Games in Brazil in 2016 is developed in Uzbekistan on order of the leadership of the country.

The programme will include measures for further successful performance of the Uzbek athletes at Olympic Games in Brazil compared to the London Games.

The ministry said that Uzbek athletes participated over 200 international competitions in nine months of 2012, and they won 182 gold medals, 164 silver medals and 177 bronze medals. They won 523 medals overall.

Some 58 athletes participated at Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in London. They won one gold, three bronze medals at Olympic Games and one silver medal at Paralympic Games. Uzbekistan was on 47th place in the world on number of claimed medals, seventh in the CIS and second in Central Asia.