Would Australia top the olympic medal table if it were calculated per capita.?

Question

Would Australia top the olympic medal table if it were calculated per capita.?

Answer 1

No. Jamaica is as the moment.

This site will tell you the 'Population Adjusted Olympic Medal Table'

http://www.geocities.com/unclebryan/Poly...

edit: the link was working before!

Answer 2

go NZ more medals to come in the BMX - Sarah Walker

Answer 3

Well the reason they dont go by capita is because if a country has 1 athlete, and they win gold...well i think you know where i'm going.

I think australia would be high on the list, but yes of course jamaica has a small population with some very talented athletes.

Answer 4

As of Sunday on the Olympic medal table, per head of population,

New Zealand was in 4th place & Australia was in 3rd place.  America was placed somewhere in the 40s & China in the 50s.  

New Zealand now has another GOLD, so maybe we are ranked even higher!

That is really good for such a small country with around 4m people  :-)

We are such a proud country with alot of spirit!

Answer 5

sure would, i have caclulated it actually and the leader bored then went Aust, U.S.A, Great Brit, China.

Answer 6

no currently that award would go to Bahrain. with just one gold medal but they are a tiny country of 700k. there are a few other countries doing better then austrailia at the moment when you do it that way.  

Answer 7

I consider kiwi medals to be Australasian ;)

Go downunder.

Congrats to Jamaica though, they are doing great.

Answer 8

did you know that they have only 2 medals that have nothin to do with water... the other 33 are either swimming, rowing, canoeing, kayaking, triathalon or sailing

Answer 9

No some smaller countries like Bahamas or Jamaica get more medals per capita. Australia usually ends up around 3rd place.

BTW Bellaamore, it is a medal TALLY, not a medal count. In the medal tally they rank by gold, then by silver and then by bronze. The tally does not only count gold medals it ranks by all medals and gives a weighting to each type of medal

Answer 10

Seriously what is up with aussies asking questions like that? Who cares?? Lol i mean no offence im an aussie too but fair is fair. Congrats to those countries who are ahead of us. I think its about time we just let it go. No point in holding a grudge. You just cant twist and turn things just to suit you. The athletes who actually earned those medals i dont think they stand around questioning other people about the medal tally.

Answer 11

We are coming fourth, fourth to HUGEEEEE countries.

Australia is kicking butt and I reckon we would be at the top considering how much smaller we are than everyone else.

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE.

Edit: I went to that list and per capita we would be coming 5th. But hows that for talent, we are doing better than our per capita estimate!

Answer 12

Probably Not, considering how much athletes USA and China have!

Answer 13

I dont think they are first but are up there!

China and america are not winning it

In fact they’re coming 44th and 32nd respectively – in the Medals Per Capita count that is.

You see, there are four ways you can measure a medals tally.

The first, which is the way most Australian press do it, is you just count the gold medals a country wins. I’m sorry to say it, but that isn’t a medal count, it’s a GOLD medal count.

The second is to give each kind of medal a different weighting i.e. gold 3, silver 2 and bronze 1, which gives you a slightly fairer comparison between countries.

The third is to count the total medals a country wins – which, incidentally is the way NBC have decided to do it since it became clear it was the only way the USA could rank as top of the pops.

And the fourth is to count the total medals a country wins per capita. And given this is how you can make China seem to be coming 44th and the USA 32nd, it’s my favourite.

So let’s have a look at this. Who are the grandmasters when it comes to the Per Capita Count?

Well it turns out to be… drum roll please… Armenia. Thanks to their weightlifting and wrestling teams Armenia has given one giant suplex to the rest of the world by winning one medal per 593,717 head of population.

They’re followed closely by Slovenia (1,003,856), which is followed even more closely by Australia (1,030,043) and then Slovakia (1,311,187). And India, with one lonely medal for a population of 1,147,995,898, has some serious catching up to do.

Actually, thinking about it, the most fair way to work this out is to get a weighted medal score per country and then divide that country's population by the figure. And if you do that - the ultimate leader of the Olympic Games is...

But who could be bothered?

Anyway, whichever way you do it Australia is top of the pops (and poor old India is struggling big time). The conventional gold medal count has us at 4th. The weighted medal count has us at equal 3rd with Russia. The total medal count has us at 4th. And the Per Capita Medal count has us at 3rd.

So it’s comforting to know whichever way you cut, shuffle, jiggle or bend the statistics the great land of Oz turns up gold… or bronzed anyway.

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008...

Answer 14

h**l yeah, given the medal count and Australia's small population.

note: Obviously some people do not know what per capita means. Like DURH !