Beijing Olympics: country rankings

Ingezonden door LVB op 2008-08-24 15:24

As the Beijing Olympics come to a close, it is interesting to rank the participating countries. But not in total medals per country, but in medals per participating athlete per country and medals per million inhabitants per country. 87 countries have won medals in these olympics. This brings us to the following two tables.


Medals per athlete



Medals per million inhabitants



My country Belgium is on rank 84 in medals per athlete and on rank 58 in medals per million inhabitants.

Thanks to R.R. for the data collection and number crunching. Sources: Wikipedia (population per country) and Beijing2008.cn.

Reacties

#78093

Auden

vrijdag, 27 maart, 2009 - 20:37

 

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With best wishes :o, Auden.

#67776

joe

woensdag, 27 augustus, 2008 - 11:08

 

also interesting: most US media rank USA nr 1 because they have more medals. "other" media rank China nr 1 because they won more gold. NYT had a different ranking with weight factors : 4-2-1 for gold-silver-bronze (if i remember well)
I don't take any stance here.

#67719

Bart

maandag, 25 augustus, 2008 - 13:14

 

Why not compare it against the money governments invest in their athletes? But I guess those figures are hard to find.

#67718

Bart

maandag, 25 augustus, 2008 - 13:13

 

Interesting ranking!

#67695

dd

maandag, 25 augustus, 2008 - 09:51

 

@ verschrikkelijke_ijsmonster

What's the impact? Txs.

#67668

verschrikkelijke_ijsmonster

zondag, 24 augustus, 2008 - 19:43

 

interesting, but...

the ratio 'medals per athlete' is wrong in my opinion, because you should consider that in team sports, every athlete obtains a medal, or you should consider one team = one athlete.