A total of 24 athletes in individual sports aged 16-24 were financed under the Sports Talents program for 2016, the respective sports are - athletics, canoeing, sailing, judo, rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, fencing, wrestling, chess, swimming, kayak, short track, shooting, taekwondo and paraolympians. These athletes were selected among 163 applicants. The program provided funding for the selected athletes in the amount of almost 90 000 BGN and is implemented with the financial support of Eurofootball. Five of the 24 supported athletes qualified and received quotas for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. These are: Militza Mircheva, Miroslav Kirchev, Ivajlo Ivanov, Angel Kodinov and Denislav Kodgabachev. All of them got additional funding of 1 000 BGN . to reinforce their preparation for the Olympics.