Commonwealth Games champion Nijel Amos will benefit from the Olympic Solidarity continental support grant ©Getty Images

Olympic silver medallist and Commonwealth Games champion Nijel Amos is among six Botswana athletes who will receive funding through an Olympic Solidarity continental support grant.

According to Botswana's Daily News, Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) chief executive Tuelo Serufho announced at the organisation's General Assembly that they had successfully applied for $100,000 (£77,600/€88,600) in funding.

This is the maximum amount a National Olympic Committee can be awarded for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycle.

Six athletes to receive funding have already been identified including Amos, the 800 metres Olympic silver medallist at London 2012 and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games champion.

Also included are 400m runner Baboloki Thebe, the reigning African champion, and high jumper Kabelo Kgosiemang, who won bronze at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Sprinters Karabo Sibanda, Isaac Makwala and Onkabetse Nkobolo complete the group.

Olympic Solidarity funding is arranged by the International Olympic Committee and distributed to National Olympic Committees across the world, particularly those with the greatest needs.

African champion Baboloki Thebe is another athlete who will benefit ©Getty Images
African champion Baboloki Thebe is another athlete who will benefit ©Getty Images

Four Botswana athletes have also been selected by the BNOC to receive money from a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) grant.

Each of the quartet will receive £5,000 ($6,400/€5,700) to help them prepare for Gold Coast 2018.

The four athletes are 800m runner Boitumelo Masilo, boxers Keamogetse Kenosi and Rajab Otukile and squash player Theo Pelonomi.

Masilo finished fourth at last year's African Championships in Durban but failed to advance from his heat at the Rio 2016 Olympics. 

Kenosi is a former national youth and senior champion while Otukile took light flyweight bronze at the Samoa 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games. 

Pelonomi reached his highest squash world ranking of 451 in May 2016.

"It is worth highlighting that with both the CGF scholarships and the continental grant, the BNOC reserves the right to, and will in fact replace any poor performing athlete with those not originally on the list but performing well," Serufho said.

"Equally, for the impending Tokyo 2020 scholarships, there will be possibilities of athletes being replaced on account of poor performance, ill-discipline and/or doping."