Not that it matters: France edged Germany in Lyon medals count
The founders of masters track despised medal counts, since nationalism was considered a blight on the sport. But for the umpteenth time, the LOC has provided the numbers. According to the Lyon 2015 site, the most medals went to host France — edging traditional powerhouse Germany in golds 106 to 105 (but leading in overall medals 284-258). Then came UK, USA and Australia, with 164, 160 and 140 medals total, respectively (60, 57, 52 gold). Hong Kong and Taiwan tied for last at 64th with two bronze each. If 98 nations took part as advertised, that means 33 countries went home empty-handed. But the experience is more valuable than the medals anyway. Hope they all had a blast. Here’s a PDF of the top 37 nations.
The world’s biggest all-comers meets awarded these medals in Lyon.
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Guyana with one girl took 3 gold (100m, 200m, 400m) W40. nice!
“Girl?”
For a little perspective, by a rough calculation the US won one medal for each 2 million citizens; Australia one for each 175,000; and Estonia one for each 47,000. I’d say little Estonia seems to be the big winner with 31 medals and less than 1.5 million population.
Love that math game, will send it to my son Teaching that subject, he always came up with surprising facts.
he does not have that talent from me …..
But I don’t need a calculator to figure out
20% from whatever.
Fun!!
Oh Jerry, I brought home 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze, what’s that worth in cents….
I know, it was heavy!
I discovered this Wikipedia page devoted to Lyon results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_World_Masters_Athletics_Championships
It shows all individual medalists.
I used the Wikipedia list to backstop my own count of Team USA medalists. I came up with different numbers from WMA.
We agree that U.S. athletes, teams and relays won 160 medals, but I came up with a different division: 58 gold, 54 silver and 48 bronze.
Any other country seeing different tallies?
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