UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee has stressed there is still "work to be done" ahead of next year's Olympics after revealing which athletes will receive lottery funding for 2012.
Van Commenee has already set a target of eight medals, one of them gold, in London, one more than the total won at the World Championships in Daegu earlier this year.
The Dutchman was pleased to see his team win two gold, four silver and one bronze medal in South Korea, but admitted that too many athletes failed to get in contention to add to the medal tally, even labelling the men's 4x400 metres relay team "appalling" for a perceived lack of effort.
"We operate in a results-driven business in which clear decisions have to be made if athletes are not performing to the high standards we set," said Van Commenee.
"We have reviewed performances from 2011, including those from previous years, and identified what needs to be done in order to meet our targets for 2012.
"Progress was made in 2011 but there is still work to be done before next August to make our athletes perform better. A target of eight medals including one gold still remains."
Unsurprisingly, world champions Mo Farah and Dai Greene are among those athletes supported by the top 'Podium' level of the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP), along with the likes of silver medallists Phillips Idowu, Jessica Ennis and Hannah England and bronze medallist Andy Turner.
Also elevated to podium funding are the likes of European Under-23 champions Holly Bleasdale (pole vault) and Jack Green (400m hurdles), while discus champion Lawrence Okoye - who failed to qualify for Daegu - has been included in the development squad for the first time. Scott Overall's shock fifth place at the recent Berlin Marathon also sees him elevated to development funding.
European silver medallist Mark Lewis-Francis receives relay funding after a poor 2011 which saw him disqualified from the World Championship trials for a false start.
Reigning Paralympic champion David Weir is among 25 Paralympic athletes named at podium level.
