Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Olympic top-six chart - updated

A reader asked me to update this chart that I produced last week showing the number of top-six finishes at the Olympics, in addition to just the number of medals won. Here is the final tally after all events completed:

Gold

Silver

Bronze

4th

5th

6th

Top-6

USA

9

15

13

8

5

9

59

Canada

14

7

5

7

17

9

59

Germany

10

13

7

8

8

7

53

Austria

4

6

6

10

7

7

40

Norway

9

8

6

5

4

5

37

Russia

3

5

7

9

0

6

30

France

2

3

6

2

7

7

27

Sweden

5

2

4

8

3

2

24

Switzerland

6

0

3

6

3

4

22

South Korea

6

6

2

3

4

0

21

China

5

2

4

2

2

4

19

Netherlands

4

1

3

5

2

4

19

Italy

1

1

3

5

2

3

15

Finland

0

1

4

2

3

4

14

Japan

0

3

2

1

6

2

14

Poland

1

3

2

0

2

2

10

Slovenia

0

2

1

1

2

3

9

Czech Republic

2

0

4

0

0

1

7

Great Britain

1

0

0

0

1

4

6

Slovakia

1

1

1

1

1

0

5

Belarus

1

1

1

1

0

1

5

Australia

2

1

0

0

1

0

4

Kazahkstan

0

1

0

0

3

0

4

Croatia

0

2

1

0

0

0

3

Latvia

0

2

0

1

0

0

3

Estonia

0

1

0

0

0

1

2

Ukraine

0

0

0

1

1

0

2

Hungary

0

0

0

0

1

1

2

Denmark

0

0

0

0

1

0

1


Canada actually tied the USA with 59 top-six finishes. Again though, the main difference is that USA put 37 of those 59 top-six finishers onto the podium and Canada put only 26 of theirs there.

Canada had a ridiculous 17 5th place finishes. If only 5th place was a medal, the red-and-white would have cleaned up....


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