2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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Australia led through day 1 of the medal table but then fell to second after winning zero medals last night. They now re-take the lead with three gold medals after Mollie O’Callaghan led a 1-2 finish with Ariarne Titmus in the women’s 200 freestyle.
Still, the Australian and US rivalry is alive and well as the US leads the total medals table with 11 total medals. The US led after night 2 but came up short of gold on night 3, instead adding one silver and three bronze tonight.
South Africa’s Tatjana Smith captured the first medal for the country winning gold in the women’s 100 breast. Romania also enters the medal table for the first time after David Popovici‘s gold in the men’s 200 free.
Perhaps the biggest surprise through night 3 is China who has yet to win a gold medal. In addition, the country only had two golds on all of day three which was a disappointment on the day.
SWIMMING MEDAL TABLE
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| USA | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| Italy | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Canada | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| South Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| China | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
ALL SPORTS MEDAL TABLE
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | France | 5 | 8 | 3 | 16 |
| 3 | China | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | Australia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 5 | South Korea | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 6 | United States | 3 | 8 | 9 | 20 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 8 | Italy | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Canada | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Germany | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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12
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Kazakhstan | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| South Africa | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 14 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
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15
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Azerbaijan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
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18
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Brazil | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Sweden | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
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20
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Fiji | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kosovo | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 25 | Moldova | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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26
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Croatia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
You can make a gold worth more than a silver and bronze combined (5 points for gold, 3 for silver, 1 for bronze) and the U.S. is still way ahead of the Aussies. Clearly a stronger team performance overall.
Honestly I liked the way Canada back in the dark ages of the 80s did their point system rather than the college or high school point systems.
50-30-20-12 etc
Valuing Gold way more.
Gold is much greater!
Her 2nd 50 matched the men’s
27.9
I’m still in shock
Genuine question here, why do we use different metrics to determine “most decorated swimmer” and “best performing country”? Im no English expert but those 2 terms seem very similar to me.
I remember Emma McKeon being crowed most decorated in Tokyo with 4G3B despite Dressel winning 5G (which sparked A LOT of debate of course) but the medal standings between countries are ranked by G>S>B.
Was Emma crowned the most decorated in Tokyo, I thought it was Dressel?
Yes, this video by Olympic Aquatics featuring McKeon is titled “Tokyo 2020’s Most Decorated Athlete”: https://youtu.be/F2UJxSMar4Y?si=UzNCXTYvFW1ruAKu
Also, Penny Oleksiak is considered as Canada’s most decorated Olympian (1G2S4B) because she has more total medals, even though she would be technically behind Leslie Thompson (1G3S1B) if the criteria was G>S>B.
I think this “most decorated” phrase is kinda exclusive to just the Olympics, but why it goes by total medals is still confusing to me
Emma McKeon Leads All #Tokyo2020 Olympic Swimming Individual Medalists (swimswam.com)
This article says Emma has the most medals but lists the individuals by golds first, with Dressel at the top
I think seeing a point system for gold vs silver vs bronze to have a total seems like a good way to decide.
You can use whatever point system you like. SwimSwam is using the actual medal table published by the IOC and World Aquatics
To determine which team is leading we convert the medals into points, like NCAA’s and age group championships around the world
Assuming 20 pts for Gold, 16pts for silver, 14 for bronze.
Australia has 108pts
USA. 164pts.
Team USA is ahead by every metric
No. Australia is ahead by the metric of the actual medal table used by the two organisations that run this event and every country that participates
Swimdad: worst commenter on this site?
Close competition between them and relay names guy
I have no problem with using a points system, but 20 for gold vs 16 for silver and 14 for bronze is silly. As I said below, we all value a gold medal much more than silver and bronze. Example, Phelps won 8 medals at both Athens and Beijing, but which feat made him famous? Not the time he won 2 bronze and 6 gold, but the time he won 8 gold. I would have 20, 10, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 down to 8th.
Just out of curiosity, can you provide documentary evidence that you’re not the program director for NBC Sports?
“Team USA is ahead by every metric”
Not the most important metric. Gold medals.
Ok I think a points system is fair.
Gold – 10,000
Silver – 50
Bronze – 1
Oh look, Australia is winning!
1 Silver + 1 bronze is not worth more then a single gold get over yourself
At least we are all having fun! Right?