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Overall, athletes from a record 87 countries won at least one medal, [6] and 55 of them won at least one gold medal. [7] Afghanistan, [8] Mauritius, [9] Sudan, [10] Tajikistan [11] and Togo won their first Olympic medals of any kind. [12]
24 Αυγ 2008 · Aside from chronicling the winning countries in this post, I have chosen to analyse the results according to population. There are many striking facts to these results — the best of which I will attempt to highlight. Herewith the Top 20 winners, ranked by number of golds.
Olympics. In fact, almost half of the approximately 200 countries on Earth in 2008 were represented. The population of the 87 countries participating in the 2008 Olympics ranged from just under 300,000 for Iceland to 1.3 billion people for China. The average population was 61.5 million. The Bahamas won more medals relative to the size of its ...
Country People / Gold Rank; Jamaica JAM: 467,389: 1: Bahrain BRN: 718,306: 2: Estonia EST: 1,307,605: 3: New Zealand NZL: 1,391,153: 4: Australia AUS: 1,471,490: 5 ...
An unprecedented 87 countries won at least one medal during the 2008 Games. Host nation China won the most gold medals (48), and became the seventh different team to top the Summer Olympics medal standings, winning a total of 100 medals overall.
By all accounts Jamaica was a very successful country at the 2008 Olympic Games. Their athletes won six gold medals, from a population of 2,780,132. However, they did not show much diversity - all the medals were from sprint events, with three golds thanks to World record holder Usain Bolt.
For the Chinese, this worked, as they led the gold medal table with 48 gold medals to the 36 won by the United States. Overall, the US won the most medals, with 112, but the Chinese improved to second there with 100 total medals. In the end the Beijing Olympics were considered one of the most beautifully conducted Olympic Games ever.
