WE RULE RIO: NZ moves to top of medals-per-capita table
Australia slips.
Not that we want to seem insecure as a nation or anything, but this just in from the Statistics NZ crew – who've managed to pull themselves away from Pokemon Go number-crunching: New Zealand has won more medals per head of population than any other country at the Rio Olympics (scroll down for the table).
Australia has sunk to seventh.
I'm so thrilled at New Zealand being No 1 that I'm not even going to ask why Stats is using 4.5 million when its Population Clock says 4.7 million.
Anyhow, take it away Statistics NZ:
On a medals per capita basis, New Zealand now ranks at the top of the table with two gold medals and six silver at the Rio Olympics, Statistics NZ says (scroll down for table)
With eight medals overall at the half way stage at Rio, New Zealand is the highest-performing country, with the equivalent of 1.77 medals for every one million people.
Slovenia is second on 1.45 medals for every one million people. Hungary and Denmark are third and fourth respectively, with Fiji coming in fifth based on its one gold for the men’s rugby sevens win.
However, on a per capita basis for gold medals alone, Fiji tops the table, with its one gold for a population of just under 900,000. On that basis, New Zealand’s two gold medals leave it in sixth place, with a population of more than 4.5 million.
During the weekend, Mahe Drysdale’s single sculls gold medal was the high point for the New Zealand team.
On Saturday, New Zealand won two silver medals, for shot-putter Valerie Adams and at the rowing where Genevieve Behrent and Rebecca Scown also picked up a medal in the pair.
I won't include in here, as it would only bring things down but Statistics NZ does also include a second table on gold medals per capita, in which Fiji is first and NZ seventh. If you must, view it here.
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