Winter Per Capita Medal Count
As I did for the 2004 Summer Olympics, I decided to look at the per capita medal count for the 2006 Winter Olympics. For population figures, I used those from my 2002 almanac.
It something of a down year for Norway with only two gold medals (Kjetil Andre Aamodt in the Men's Super G and Lars Bystoel in the Normal Hill) considering that in 2002 the Norwegians returned to Olso with 13 gold medals. Their total medal count may have declined by over 1.3 for each Norwegian, but they still managed to lead thw way with 4.22 medals per million people (mpmp). They finished sixth in the total count. This also represents nearly four winter medals for every one summer medal in 2004.
Second in per capita medals (and fourth in total medals) is Austria at 2.82 mpmp, and not surprisingly 14 of their 23 medals came in the Alpine skiing events.
Estonia only won 3 medals, but with less than 1.5 million people, it was good for third with 2.11 mpmp, and with them being all cross-country skiing gold medals (two for Kristina Smigun and one for Andrus Veerpalu) they led the way in gold medals per capita.
Only three other nations--Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden--finished with more than 1 mpmp.
Germany was first in total medals with 29, but at 0.35 mpmp that was good for only 13th in the per capita standings. The United States won a second-best 25 medals but was only 22nd in per capita with 0.09 mpmp.
Japan was 27th and last (at 0.008 mpmp) among the nations that won at least one medal, but that one medal was Shizuka Arakawa's gold in women's figure skating.
It something of a down year for Norway with only two gold medals (Kjetil Andre Aamodt in the Men's Super G and Lars Bystoel in the Normal Hill) considering that in 2002 the Norwegians returned to Olso with 13 gold medals. Their total medal count may have declined by over 1.3 for each Norwegian, but they still managed to lead thw way with 4.22 medals per million people (mpmp). They finished sixth in the total count. This also represents nearly four winter medals for every one summer medal in 2004.
Second in per capita medals (and fourth in total medals) is Austria at 2.82 mpmp, and not surprisingly 14 of their 23 medals came in the Alpine skiing events.
Estonia only won 3 medals, but with less than 1.5 million people, it was good for third with 2.11 mpmp, and with them being all cross-country skiing gold medals (two for Kristina Smigun and one for Andrus Veerpalu) they led the way in gold medals per capita.
Only three other nations--Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden--finished with more than 1 mpmp.
Germany was first in total medals with 29, but at 0.35 mpmp that was good for only 13th in the per capita standings. The United States won a second-best 25 medals but was only 22nd in per capita with 0.09 mpmp.
Japan was 27th and last (at 0.008 mpmp) among the nations that won at least one medal, but that one medal was Shizuka Arakawa's gold in women's figure skating.
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