Aquatics
Beijing tally 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
Progress Britain won four golds, three silvers and two bronzes in this year’s World Championships in Rome. Tom Daley won the 10 metres diving, making a great leap forward from Beijing, where he came seventh at the age of 14; Keri-Anne Payne won the open-water 10km swim and Liam Tancock and Gemma Spofforth (50 metres and 100 metres backstroke respectively) won in the pool. In synchronised swimming, Britain are still building a squad under a new performance director, who started in 2007. In water polo, the women’s team won the European B league this year, with the men coming fourth. Both need to compete in the European A league by 2011 to qualify for the Olympics.
Venue Work on Zaha Hadid’s signature 160-metre wavy roof began in March and is nearly complete. The £244 million venue’s two swimming pools and diving pool are being dug. Water polo will be in a temporary venue and open-water swimming on the Serpentine, Hyde Park.

Archery
Beijing tally Best result: fourth
Progress No Olympic-class medals in the World Championships — although Liam Grimwood got a silver in the compound — but Simon Terry won silver at the World Cup finals. Tom Barber, a 18-year-old from Norfolk, will push hard for a place. If Alison Williamson is selected, it will be her sixth Olympics.
Venue A temporary range will be built at Lord’s cricket ground.

Athletics
Beijing tally 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze
Progress Phillips Idowu won his first world title in the triple jump in Berlin this year and Jessica Ennis won three of the categories in the heptathlon on her way to the title. There were silver medals for Lisa Dobriskey in the 1,500 metres and the men’s 4 x 400 metres and bronzes for the men’s sprint relay and for Jenny Meadows in the 800 metres.
Venue The shell of the £538 million stadium is complete and the 80,000-seat arena is taking shape fast. The cable roof structure will be lifted into place by the end of the year. What is not yet concrete is its post-Games use. Olympic chiefs must decide whether to scale it back to a 25,000-seat athletics stadium or maintain it on a bigger scale to feature a mixture of football, rugby and cricket.

Badminton
Beijing tally Best result: quarter-finals
Progress The English team withdrew from the World Championships in Hyderabad, India, in August, citing security fears. Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark won the Singapore Open, their first Super Series title, but both are in their thirties. Rajiv Ouseph, 23, has gone from the world No 50 in singles to No 21 and beat the world No 13 in the French Open this week.
Venue Very likely to be held at Wembley Arena, the venue for the World Championships, after London organisers scrapped a £40 million temporary building in North Greenwich to save money. The plan has to be ratified.

Basketball
Beijing tally Did not compete
Progress In their first season in Europe’s Division A, the men topped their group to qualify for EuroBasket, but lost all three matches against Europe’s leading sides. The women, although relegated to Division B, were granted dispensation to stay at the top level in 2010.
Venue Lucky to have the O2 arena, a proven hit with the NBA, which is expected to run the 2012 basketball finals in its European venue of choice. It will be renamed North Greenwich Arena during the Games because of the IOC’s “no-branding” rules. The qualifying will be in a £58 million temporary arena on the Olympic Park. Work began this month.

Boxing
Beijing tally 1 gold, 2 bronze
Progress No medals at the World Championships in Milan last month, but the cupboard is far from bare. Khalid Yafai, the flyweight who boxed in Beijing, would have won a medal but for a bad judging decision, while Scott Cardle emerged as a genuine medal hope. The other Olympian still an amateur, Bradley Saunders, missed Milan with a broken thumb but has been boxing well, while Luke Campbell, the bantamweight, became the first British boxer to become a European amateur champion in 47 years last November.
Venue After refusing to move to Wembley Arena to accommodate cost-cutting plans, boxing will be held at the ExCeL Centre at Royal Victoria Dock after a £24 million refit of the exhibition centre in 2012.

Canoeing
Beijing tally 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
Progress With Tim Brabants, who won two flatwater medals in Beijing, taking a year off, the team failed to win any medals in this year’s World Championships, but Rachel Cawthorn, 21, came fourth in the 500 metres single kayak, 0.6sec away from bronze. She also came fifth in the women’s four. The men’s four reached their first world final, coming seventh. In the slalom World Championships, Britain had their best display since 1983. The women’s K1 team won gold and Lizzie Neave took bronze in the individual contest. The men’s K1 team took silver and the men’s C2 team got bronze.
Venue The flatwater events will take place at existing facilities at Eton Dorney, Windsor, and whitewater canoeing is getting a £31 million world-class facility in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, including a 300-metre competition course and a 160-metre training course. Construction started in July.

Cycling
Beijing tally 8 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze
Progress Not as dominant as 2008, coming third in the World Track Championships after claiming only two golds for Victoria Pendleton and the women’s team pursuit. Steve Peat won his first world title in the downhill mountain biking and Mark Cavendish won six stages of the Tour de France.
Venue The £94 million velodrome — Sir Chris Hoy had a say in its design — will be completed in early 2011. The first lower tier of seating is already in place and its double-curved roof is taking shape.

Equestrianism
Beijing tally 2 bronze
Progress Tina Cook won two gold medals at the European Eventing Championships, with Piggy French claiming silver in the individual event and William Fox-Pitt fourth. In the European Show-Jumping Championships, Britain came sixth.
Venue Planning application for a £10 million temporary venue for three-day eventing in Greenwich will be lodged next month despite fierce objections by some local residents to the closure of London’s oldest Royal Park and the lack of a legacy for the sport. Olympic chiefs have promised not to chop down trees and have reduced the time it is closed to the public from six weeks to a month.

Fencing
Beijing tally Best result: last 16
Progress Britain’s men’s foil team came sixth in the World Championships in Turkey, missing a place in the semi-finals by one point to Germany. Richard Kruse, a member of the team, won a silver in the European Championships in Bulgaria, beating Laurence Halsted, his compatriot, in the semi-final. The team came fourth.
Venue The revamped ExCeL Centre.

Football
Beijing tally Did not compete
Progress An English team will represent Great Britain and could be medal contenders after qualifying with ease for the 2010 World Cup.
Venue Will use existing stadiums, including Wembley, Old Trafford and Villa Park.

Gymnastics
Beijing tally 1 bronze
Progress Beth Tweddle won her second world title this month on the floor exercise, rather than her favoured bars, delighting her home fans. Daniel Keatings won the first medal in the all-around event by a British man, taking silver. Louis Smith won silver in the European Championships on the horse.
Venue Artistic gymnastics will take place in the O2, where a dry run for the World Championships this month were a success. Rhythmic gymnastics is expected to move from a scrapped temporary venue to Wembley Arena, subject to approval.

Handball
Beijing tally Did not compete
Progress Britain have never qualified for the Olympics and they will have to prove they are competitive to do so for 2012. Having had their funding cut in half to £1.4 million, the task is difficult. The women’s team qualified for the 2009-10 European Championships, but lost their first two matches.
Venue Foundations of a new £24 million arena are in place and the main structure will be finished by next summer.

Hockey
Beijing tally Best result: fifth in men’s
Progress England’s men won the European Championships, beating Germany 5-3. The women’s youth team won gold, beating Australia with a golden goal, at the Youth Olympic Festival in January.
Venue A temporary centre on the Olympic Park will house two pitches with seating for 15,000 and 5,000 spectators respectively. Earthworks begin early next year.

Judo
Beijing tally Best result: quarter-finals
Progress A poor World Championships in the Netherlands in August was rescued by Karina Bryant, the four-times European champion, winning a silver medal in the +78kg category. She beat the Olympic bronze medal-winner in the first round but lost to the Olympic champion in the final. Sarah Clark won a silver in the -63kg category at the European Championships in April.
Venue The revamped ExCeL Centre.

Modern pentathlon
Beijing tally 1 silver
Progress A silver in the women’s team event at the World Championships in Crystal Palace, South London, but the individual performances were disappointing. Heather Fell, second in Beijing, was ninth and the best man was thirteenth.
Venue Running, riding and shooting to be held in Greenwich Park; fencing in the handball arena.

Rowing
Beijing tally 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
Progress Promising with so many medal-winners in Beijing taking the year off. The new-look men’s four was the only boat to win gold at the World Championships in Poland but there were four silvers and a bronze in Olympic classes, the pick of which were Katherine Grainger’s unexpected silver in the women’s single scull and Alan Campbell, in the men’s single, setting the second-fastest time in history but still being pipped to the line.
Venue Work has started on a £5.6 million upgrade of existing facilities at Eton Dorney, including improved spectator access and warm-up areas.

Sailing
Beijing tally 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
Progress A strong year, with world championship wins for Paul Goodison in the Laser and Nick Dempsey in the men’s windsurfing, as well as many other good results. Giles Scott was fourth in the Finn World Championship, but spent most of the year jostling for the World Cup title with Ed Wright, who is now the world No 2. Lucy Macgregor is up to No 2 in the rankings in the new Elliott-class match-racing event.
Venue The £7 million venue at Weymouth and Portland Harbour in Dorset was finished last year — the first 2012 venue to be completed.

Shooting
Beijing tally Best finish: sixth
Progress The year has been dominated by a row over the location for the 2012 shooting events — with British Shooting calling for the venue to be moved from Woolwich to Bisley — and the decision to make the team’s performance director redundant after a 76 per cent cut in funding. The World Championships take place next year.
Venue A planning application for a £42 million temporary venue is imminent in the face of continued opposition by some in the shooting community who want a legacy for the sport.

Table tennis
Beijing tally Did not compete
Progress Paul Drinkhall, 19, won a silver medal at the junior World Championships and helped to steer England into the top flight of the European Championships for the first time in ten years, but he is still outside the world’s top 100. The women came 21st in the European competition.
Venue The revamped ExCeL Centre.

Taekwondo
Beijing tally 1 bronze
Progress A bronze and a fifth place in Beijing were good achievements, but there was little progress at the World Championships in Denmark this month. Sarah Stevenson, the 2001 World Champion, was hampered by a finger injury and lost her first bout. Craig Brown was beaten in the quarter-final of the men’s middleweight, as was Michael Harvey at bantamweight and Tony Grisman at featherweight.
Venue The revamped ExCeL Centre.

Tennis
Beijing tally Best finish: last 16
Progress As always it is all about one man. Andy Murray at one point became world No 2 but still lacks a grand-slam title. The next best British man, Alex Bogdanovic, is No 189 and Britain have slipped out of the Euro-Africa top group in the Davis Cup. Better news for the women, where there are three players in the top 100.
Venue All-England Club, Wimbledon.

Triathlon
Beijing tally Best finish: twelfth
Progress Al Brownlee has been dominant this year, winning all five World Championship Series events and the world title itself in Australia. Helen Jenkins is fifth in the women’s world rankings after coming third in the world Grand Final.
Venue A £7 million temporary venue will be built in Hyde Park.

Volleyball
Beijing tally Did not compete
Progress Steady, with 14 men and seven women competing professionally for European teams. The women qualified for the European League for the first time. On the beach, Denise Johns and Lucy Boulton reached their first European Tour semi-final at the European Masters in Blackpool.
Venue Indoor volleyball to be held in Earls Court and beach volleyball on a £5.5 million temporary structure on Horse Guards Parade.

Weightlifting
Beijing tally Best finish: fifteenth
Progress Developing a young squad under their new Hungarian coach, Tamas Feher. Zoe Smith, 14, won gold at the Commonwealth Youth Games in India and Peter Kirkbride took silver in the European Under-23 Championships in Poland last week.
Venue The revamped ExCeL Centre.

Wrestling
Beijing tally Did not compete
Progress Got two fifth places in this year’s World Championships through two Eastern European “signings” in Krasimir Krastanov, from Bulgaria, and Yana Stadnik. Britain had three home-grown men in the top 20 at the worlds — Leon Rattigan, Jatinder Rakhra and Mike Grundy — who could be contenders come 2016.
Venue The revamped ExCeL Centre.