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The Flyctory.com-Style Medal Count of the 2024 Paris Olympics

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I did this kind of posting for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games as well as for the 2020/21 Tokyo Summer Games already. While the medal count is one of the key tables you look at the end of Olympic Games, I like to publish to separate my medal count, which is more focusing on the versatility of certain nations. One of my key motivations has been that the Netherlands, for example, are extremely strong in speed skating, but apart from that not too striking as a winter sports country. Thus, I repeat this kind of posting again and present you my Flyctory.com medal count.

 

The Flyctory.com-Style Medal Count – What I did

The idea is simple: I do a medal count like it is familiar to you. However, in every sports, you can at most win one medal of each category. This is unfair, as the IOC lists a bunch of cycling sports, but gathers all track and field disciplines as Athletics. But that’s what life is about. If a country won gold in BMX Freestyle and Mountainbiking, they will be counted as two golden ones in my tally – a golden medal in 100 meter sprint plus another one in hammer throw will only count as one. The idea is to identify countries which are very versatile and win medals in very different sports. I honestly did not expect too many movements in Summer Games in contrast to winter games. But let’s see.

According to the Paris 2024 website, the list of sports is as follows:

  • 3×3 Basketball
  • Archery
  • Artistic Gymnastics
  • Artistic Swimming
  • Athletics
  • Badminton
  • Basketball
  • Beach Volleyball
  • Boxing
  • Breaking
  • Canoe Slalom
  • Canoe Sprint
  • Cycling BMX Freestyle
  • Cycling BMX Racing
  • Cycling Mountain Bike
  • Cycling Road
  • Cycling Track
  • Diving
  • Equestrian
  • Fencing
  • Football / Soccer
  • Golf
  • Handball
  • (Field) Hockey
  • Judo
  • Marathon Swimming
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • Rowing
  • Rugby Sevens
  • Sailing
  • Shooting
  • Skateboarding
  • Sport Climbing
  • Surfing
  • Swimming
  • Table Tennis
  • Taekwondo
  • Tennis
  • Trampoline
  • Triathlon
  • Volleyball
  • Water Polo
  • Weightlifting
  • Wrestling

That’s in total a list of 46 sports. This also means that in the Flyctory.com leaderboard, you may at most have 46 golden medals – compared to 339 disciplines in fact competed in in Tokyo.

 

The Flyctory.com-Style Medal Count – The Table

Here is my alternative medal count, determined as described above:

Rank Country G S B
1 USA 14 18 22
2 China 14 15 11
3 France 12 19 14
4 Great Britain 11 12 12
5 Italy 10 9 12
6 Australia 9 10 9
7 Germany 8 12 8
8 Japan 7 10 8
9 Netherlands 7 5 8
10 New Zealand 7 5 3
11 Canada 5 6 9
12 South Korea 5 6 7
13 Hungary 5 4 4
14 Spain 4 4 8
15 Uzbekistan 4 2 2

While the first two places are equivalent to the official medal table of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, France, Great Britain and Italy positioned themselves as very versatile nations. On the other hand, Japan (3rd in the official ranking) and the Netherlands (6th) drop a couple of spots. It is quite interesting, though, that the fifteen nations in my list are absolutely equivalent to the one in the official table, they just come up in another order.

 

Another Ranking – At Least one Medal in a Sports

My rankings rather point into widespread talent. Thus, I also have a look into which country came up with at least one medal (golden, silver or bronze is irrelevant in here). in most sports. There are 44 kinds of sports according to the IOC list I gave above.

Rank Country Sports with Medal
1 USA 34
2 France 27
3 China 23
4 Great Britain 22
5 Australia 20
6 Germany 19
6 Italy 19
8 Japan 16
9 Canada 15
10 Netherlands 13

I feel that this table is very interesting. There are only ten sports, in which the USA did not succeed grabbing a medal. This is an amazing performance. France and especially China leave quite a gap, which illustrates that these nations do have a level of concentration on certain sports in their medal board. Japan also has quite a drop in this view. Compared to the Top 10 of the original medal board, South Korea does not make it to the Top 10 – they are 12th in this kind of ranking. By the way, the best country in the medal table, who won all their medals in one sports, is Kenya. They are ranked 17th in the official medal table and got – you guess it – all their medal in athletics. They are also the only country, who won more than one gold medal in Paris without being successful in more than one sports.

 

Full House – All Medals in a Sports

Based on the topic of concentrating on certain kinds of sports, I also look into Full Houses, which means that a country won gold, silver and bronze in a certain kind of sports. This look is a bit of questionable. In team sports like handball or basketball, you cannot reach that target. In swimming and athletics, where there are a lot of disciplines, it is therefor comparably “easy” to do it. Also, a golden, a silver and a bronze medal in athletics, for example, counts more than three golden ones. Nonetheless, it is a nice view to look into it.

Rank County “Full House” Sports
1 USA 6
2 China 5
2 Italy 5
4 France 4
5 Australia 3
5 Great Britain 3
5 Japan 3
5 Netherlands 3

Thereafter, there are five nations with two Full Houses and seven with one. Especially Italy surprises with a rather high count in here.

 

Title picture: Olympic Rings in Paris

 

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