Or like Grenada, which continually walks away with wins despite a population the size of a few blocks in Manhattan. Since the s, pinpointing the country with the most medals has been easy: the US.
Even now, midway through the games in Tokyo, the US has the most total medals with China following close behind. You could argue that countries with a large population have an advantage: More people to choose from means a greater chance there's an Olympian in the midst.
So it's particularly interesting to remove this variable and look at a medal counts compared to population. This is achieved simply by dividing the country's population by the number of medals their Olympic team won Here's what the lowest and highest population-per-medal counts looked like for the most recent summer Olympics.
One of the most interesting wins in recent memory is that of Grenada, a small island country with a population of just over , It sent seven athletes to the Olympics, and won a gold. Grenada scored another gold medal in Since , a handful of nations have continuously been in the top 10 of this list: the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Slovenia, with notable mentions for New Zealand and Hungary, which have made three of the last four top 10s.
Bermuda will likely be a contender for top of the list this year. With a population of 63,, it became the smallest region to win a gold with Flora Duffy's triathlon victory on July India, however, consistently foils the trend that countries with large populations end up with many medals.
In , it only won two medals, meaning one medal for just over half a billion people. The country has historically been one of the worst-faring Olympic nations by population. China CHN. Chinese Taipei TPE. Republic of China ROC. Colombia COL. Comoros COM. Congo CGO. Cook Islands COK. Costa Rica CRC. Cote d'Ivoire CIV. Croatia CRO. Cuba CUB. Cyprus CYP. Czech Republic CZE. Bohemia BOH. Czechoslovakia TCH. Denmark DEN. Djibouti DJI. Dominica DMA.
Dominican Republic DOM. Ecuador ECU. Egypt EGY. El Salvador ESA. Equatorial Guinea GEQ. Eritrea ERI. Estonia EST. Eswatini SWZ. Ethiopia ETH. Fiji FIJ.
Finland FIN. France FRA. Gabon GAB. Gambia GAM. Georgia GEO. Germany GER. Saar SAR. Ghana GHA. Great Britain GBR. Greece GRE. Grenada GRN. Guam GUM. Guatemala GUA.
Guinea GUI. Guinea-Bissau GBS. Guyana GUY. Haiti HAI. Honduras HON. Hungary HUN. Iceland ISL. India IND. Indonesia INA. Iran IRI. Iraq IRQ. Ireland IRL. Israel ISR. Italy ITA. Jamaica JAM. Japan JPN. Jordan JOR. Kazakhstan KAZ. Kenya KEN. Kiribati KIR. Korea Republic KOR. Korea COR. Kosovo KOS. Kuwait KUW. Kyrgyzstan KGZ. Laos LAO. Latvia LAT. Lebanon LBN. Lesotho LES. The Olympic Games typically shortened to "Olympics" is a worldwide tournament in which athletes from all over the world come together to compete in honor of their respective countries.
The Olympics are the leading international sports event, with each occurrence of the games held in a different host city. The Olympics is divided into two seasonally themed halves. The Summer Olympics includes a myriad of fair weather sports, from track and field to swimming, gymnastics, and basketball. Conversely, the Winter Olympics focuses upon cold-weather sports such as bobsledding, ice skating, and skiing.
Both events are held every four years, but their schedules are currently offset by two years.
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