2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Swimming: August 6-13
- Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Barra Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro
- Prelims – 9:00 a.m/12:00 p.m PST/EST (1:00 p.m local), Finals – 6:00 p.m/9:00 p.m PST/EST (10:00 p.m local)
- SwimSwam previews
- Schedule & Results
- Live Stream (NBC)
A couple of teams made their way onto the swimming medal table after the open water events this week. Despite missing the medals in the pool, a pair of Dutch swimmers, Sharon Van Rouwendaal and Ferry Weertman, swept the 10k open water races to put the Netherlands in the mix. After missing the medals completely in pool swimming, the open water swimmers bumped the Netherlands up to 5th in the standings with 2 golds.
Brazil and Greece also saw their first swimming medals in the open water events. In the women’s race, Brazil’s Poliana Okimoto won the host country’s only swimming medal of these Games with her 3rd place finish. Greek open water swimmer Spiros Gianniotis took silver in the men’s race
At the conclusion of all the swimming races, the USA sits on top of the medal tally with 16 gold, 8 silver, and 9 bronze for a total of 33 medals. That put them 23 medals ahead of the #2 Australians, who won 3 gold, 4 silver, and 3 bronze medals.
Rio 2016 Final Swimming Medal Table:
| PLACE | COUNTRY | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL |
| 1 | United States | 16 | 8 | 9 | 33 |
| 2 | Australia | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | Hungary | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Great Britain | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | China | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 8 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Singapore | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | South Africa | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 | Russia | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 17 | France | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Belarus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
How are you guys calculating that table? How is the Netherlands ahead of the UK, who had 1 gold and 6 overall medals?
Tim- The Netherlands had 2 golds to Britain’s 1. The table is sorted by number of golds (highest to lowest). For those with no golds, it goes from most to least silvers (South Africa is ahead of Russia even though they have less overall medals because they have more silvers.). For those with no golds or silvers, they get sorted by number of bronze medals. If you google “Rio 2016 medal standings” they use the same format.
Thanks Lauren, I understand now.