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February 21, 2006

Bragging rights

Out of curiosity, I decided to add the medal counts for the 2004 Athens summer olympics and the 2006 Torino winter olympics. Here are the curent top ten nations by total medals awarded. See the extended post for the next 18 (I selected the top 20 nations for both the summer and winter games).

 

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Combined Total

United States

42

46

33

121

Russian Fed.

34

20

19

73

China

33

19

18

70

Germany

23

23

23

69

Australia

18

16

16

50

Italy

14

11

16

41

France

14

10

16

40

Korea

12

15

10

37

Japan

16

9

12

37

Great Britain

9

10

12

31

Netherlands

6

11

11

28

Cuba

9

7

11

27

Canada

6

12

8

26

Ukraine

9

5

11

25

Norway

7

8

9

24

Austria

10

9

4

23

Romania

8

5

6

19

Spain

3

11

5

19

Hungary

8

6

3

17

Greece

6

6

4

16

Sweden

6

3

5

14

Switzerland

3

3

7

13

Bulgaria

2

2

9

13

Czech Republic

1

5

4

10

Brazil

4

3

3

10

Croatia

2

4

2

8

Finland

0

5

3

8

Estonia

3

1

2

6

I will update the list at the closing of the games (if not sooner).

Posted by Eric Seymour at February 21, 2006 05:00 PM

Comments

Impressive table.

Posted by: Joshua Claybourn at February 21, 2006 05:43 PM | permalink

Yes, indeed - go, Estonia!

Posted by: Matt B. at February 22, 2006 12:25 AM | permalink

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