After the very first two messages on general aspects, medals as well as TOP10 systems, it is now time to have a look at what occurred below the top 10 nations in the table as well as try to comprehend much more performance as well as systems trends.
Canada has been climbing ranks because London 2012 moving from 27th location with 18 medals (2 Golds) to the 11th location in Tokyo with 24 medals (7 Golds). Canada won medals in 10 sports with Athletics as well as Swimming winning half of the overall medals. No medals in women athletics, however a 4th location in the 4×400. extremely great performance in Men’s athletics, with the prospective to upgrade the bronze to silver in the 4x100m if team GB will lose it because of a Doping positive discovering in one of their relay member. Andre de Grasse providing two private medals with the Gold in the 200m as well as Evan Dunfee confirming that when the warm is on, he is well prepared, just like he was in Doha 2019. general the Canadians take 5th location in the points system in Athletics. significant Gold medal in Women’s Football (or soccer like they like to phone call it in North America). I bet the semifinal win was celebrated as much as the Hockey Gold in Vancouver in 2010. Canadian women winning in track cycling (no young boys near the podium). Canada has a great sports facilities as well as excellent scientific support as well as has been always performing extremely well in the winter season Olympics. appears like the Canadians are cracking the code in summertime sports too. In fact, they qualified the largest team in history in Tokyo (also thanks to new sports for sure) however with great investment as well as skill (also skill transfer) in multi-medal sports I believe they can difficulty the top 10 if the level of investment stays up as well as perhaps they put some effort in cycling, where I am sure they can have the skill as well as the resources to up the ante. There are excellent news for the Canadians in terms of sport funding with some particular funding to ensure native women as well as women have gain access to to sports activities. In this day as well as age, 10 Golds take you in the top 10…if they can discover them in 3 years, taking some away from other nations, they are in! So keep an eye on the Canadian team in Paris!
Brazil handled to enhance a bit on their house games (adding two bronze medals to the previous games) as well as improving one setting in the ranking (12th place). Medals came from 12 sports, as well as a huge increase came from 3 medals from skateboarding with some young athletes taking a great deal of interest thanks to their outstanding skills as well as stories. almost an even split of medals distribution between male as well as female athletes. performance seems steady in spite of the rollercoaster trip of Olympic sports in Brazil after the Rio Olympics. If you are not familiar with the ‘Operation vehicle wash‘ you can checked out much more here. I believe Brazil as well as India are the two sleeping giants of world Sport. big populations, enormous prospective when you see the amazing athletes they have. The outstanding performances of Rebeca Andrade in Gymnastics as well as Ana Marcela Cunha in the 10K open water swim as well as the women’s volleyball silver likewise show the prospective for female athletes in Brazil. resources as well as support structures are what Brazil needs to reach top 10. If they can make the organized tradition centres work as well as personnel them with qualified as well as inspired individuals with great high quality coaches, they can be a world power in sport (more details on the national training network are here).
Hungary as well as new Zealand won much more than Rio 2016 as well as verified their locations just below the top 10. Hungary won medals in 9 sports with 1/3rd of the medals coming from female athletes. huge frustration was the Women’s handball team (but their future is bright with a great deal of up as well as coming talent), as well as perhaps they were expecting the women’s water polo team to be in the final against the US. Canoeing always creating the products for Hungary with solid history in the sport as well as constant talent. They always have a great return for investment thanks to high high quality athletes as well as a coaching system linked to sports science advancement mainly in the university of Physical education as well as sports science TF which is the primary hub of coaching education in the country (I am an alumnus, so I am biased, however this location is truly special).
New Zealand is one of the few countries consistently enhancing the number of medals won because Athens 2004. The progression has been immense.
EditionAthletes EnteredGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank
2000 Sydney151103446
2004 Athens148320524
2008 Beijing182324925
2012 London1846251315
2016 Rio de Janeiro1994951819
2020 Tokyo2137672013
New Zealand in recent editions of the summertime Olympics
For such a little country winning medals in 11 sports is phenomenal as well as 8 medals between rowing as well as canoeing come at a fraction of the expense of the respective team GB programmes. almost an even distribution of male/female medals (9/11). I always look at HPSNZ as great recommendation system where resources are maximised as well as ingenious methods are utilized tos establish sport in the country. If you want to understand much more about it, you can gain access to the info here. The new investment technique looks appealing with the prospective to support much more athletes as well as sport accomplish worldwide success. The unfortunate story for NZ sport was the disaster of the bicyclist Olivia Podmore. An independente query has been revealed to look into the atmosphere of cycling NZ as well as what can be done to enhance health and wellness as well as wellness of athletes.
What else has been happening in the second as well as third tier nations?
Spain is steady with 17 medals (albeit a great deal less gold) than previous editions which puts them after the top 20. 3 medals from team sports for the Spanish team, not much coming from Athletics or Cycling, nothing in Swimming however Gold medals in the new events Karate as well as sport Climbing. For a country of 46M people, I believe they underperform, they ought to be in the top 20. I echo what Fernando Carreño composed on La Marca, there is a requirement to embrace some kind of system in Spain. Which one is the question. He suggests the Dutch one because of the links with the former head coach of Spanish Hockey Maurit Hendricks who was leading the Dutch NOC in this Olympic cycle. Can the large financial obligation reported from their two major football Clubs Barcelona as well as genuine Madrid sway the rate of interest as well as funding chances for Olympic Sports? In the meantime, Los Hispanos (the handball men’s team) brought house one more Bronze medal closing a cycle with the legendary captain Raúl Entrerrios bringing closure to an amazing career with the national team. Also, the women’s water polo team tried to upset the us team in the final, however, at the moment, the Americans are completely out of reach for anybody.
Kenya is on the method down (-3 medals from Rio 2016). This is because of the diaspora of athletes moving to contend for other nations (I believe I might determine around 20 Kenyans contending for other flags with some winning medals) in addition to stricter antidoping/eligibility guidelines imposed by some worldwide federations. Time will tell if the Kenyan dominance n running events will fade because of the present challenges.
Other major things to note in the medal table: the large decrease in medal count for Azerbaijan (7 medals in Tokyo vs 18 in Rio, all medals coming from battle sports) as well as Uzbekistan (5 medals in Tokyo vs 13 in Rio with Boxing creating only 1 medal vs 7 in the previous edition). Those two nations were the huge losers in the medal table.
Arab nations
Qatar was the top-ranked Arab country in the games, with three medals, including two golds as well as one bronze. They were the very first two Olympic gold medals in Qatar’s history. athlete Fares Ibrahim El-Bakh won gold in men’s 96kg weightlifting as well as Mutaz Essa Barshim in the high jump (sharing the gold with Marco Tamberi of Italy). Qatar’s bronze medal came from men’s beach volleyball.
One of the renowned moments of the Tokyo Olympics. shared Gold medal in High Jump.
The second best-placed Arab country in Tokyo was Egypt, with six medals, one gold, one silver, as well as four bronze. The Egyptian gold came from women’s Karate Kumite, with athlete Feryal Abdelaziz in the over 61 kg category. Ahmed Elgendy won silver in the contemporary pentathlon. Giana Lotfy won bronze in women’s under 61kg Kumite, Seif Eissa in men’s 80 kg taekwondo, Hedaya Malak in women’s 67 kg taekwondo, as well as Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed in men’s 67 kg wrestling. The Handball Pharaohs lost the bronze medal match against a much experienced Spanish team. however they had a amazing tournament, played a extremely appealing style of handball thanks to influence of Spanish coach Parrondo as well as have high high quality players in their team (keep an eye on the young skill Hassan Walid Kaddah in the future). They are the team to view in Paris.
Tunisia was the third best-ranked Arab country in Tokyo, in 58th place. The country earned two medals, one gold, as well as one silver. The gold came from the amazing performance of Ahmed Hafnaoui, in the men’s 400 m freestyle swimming. Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi earned silver for Tunisia in the men’s 58 kg taekwondo.
Morocco came 63rd with a gold medal in men’s 3,000 m hurdles in athletics by Soufiane El Bakkali. Jordan took 74th location with one silver by Saleh Elsharabaty in men’s 80 kg taekwondo as well as a bronze by Abdel RahmanAlmasatfa in men’s 67 kg Kumite.
Bahrain finished 77th with one silver by Kalkidan Gezahegne in the women’s 10,000 m athletics. Saudi Arabia reached the exact same setting as Bahrain, with a silver medal from Tareq Hamedi in men’s over 75kg Kumite.
Kuwait came 86th, with a bronze from Abdullah Alrashidi in men’s shooting. Syria, likewise in 86th place, earned a bronze medal with athlete guy Asaad in men’s over 109kg weightlifting.
Continental Trends
Asian sport is on the up, thanks to the investment in facilities as well as knowledge in the continent. For the very first time in history, Asia has won much more than a quarter of the medals awarded in the Olympic Games.
Asian Medals at the summertime Olympics
This result was boosted by Japan’s performances in addition to the typical strong performance from China, however much more nations are now achieving amazing results, as well as the very first gold medal likewise shown up for India thanks to India’s young javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra who won his country’s very first Olympic gold medal in track as well as field.
First Gold medal likewise for the Philippines, thanks to the exceptional performance of Hidilyn Diaz beating the world record for the 55kg weighlifting women’s division of 127 Kg in the clean as well as Jerk (total 224 kgs).
There are a great deal of analyses offered on the internet taking a look at alternate medal tables taking into consideration GDP, Population, etc. I suggest you look at the excellent visualisations from the sky news data journalist Ganesh Rao in addition to the example below from Bloomberg.
FiveThirtyEight‘s interactive medal count offers an summary of the number of medals won by the NOCs in the context of the preliminary analytic expectations. The projections were produced based on the contending countries’ achievements in each sport over the past three summertime Olympics (you can checked out much more about the methodology utilized by this FiveThirtyEight here)
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