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Mark Spitz won nine golds in the 1968 and 1972 Games, a feat unequalled in the pool until the emergence of Michael Phelps

Yang Wei Has won three gold and

two silver medals in gymnastics as part

of the Chinese push for Olympic glory

US JamaicaGermany GB Canada Australia

25Gold

23 3

2 2

53medals

1413

10

8 8

Track: 100m sprint

1

2 medals

212medals

51Gold

181medals

45Gold

171medals

41Gold

108medals

30

113medals

34

139medals

37

143medals

49Gold

90medals

28

86medals

18

82medals

37

33medals

10

23medals

8

22medals

4

20medals

7

3

15medals

3

17medals

4

4

3

2

1

1

75medals

23

70medals

20

38medals

18

24medals

723

medals

2

21medals

6 4

14medals

3

8 medals

2

7 medals

1

6 medals

3

5 medals

4

4

1

2 medals

2

2

1

1

1

1

111

1

1

85medals

36

41medals

10

25medals

6

21medals

7

20medals

9

19medals

2

19medals

2

9medals

3

10medals

3

12medals

4

1

2 medals

2

2

2

1

91medals

2066

medals

17

55medals

13

55medals

12

2

10medals

4

10medals

1

11medals

1

11medals

2

13medals

1

14medals

6

1

4 medals

2

4 medals

1

4 medals

1

3 medals

2

1

2 medals

2

1

2 medals

1

1

1

1

1

1

48medals

11

1

7medals

4

1

3 medals

2

2

1

1

1

96medals

28

64medals

10

5

112medals

45Gold

39medals

9

31medals

9

1

8medals

1

9medals

4

16medals

4

16medals

4

17medals

17medals

2

5

18medals

3

2

France NetherlandsGermany Italy GB US

Cycling: Individual sprint

9

2

54

2 2

20

8

11

9

6 6

Ethiopia MoroccoFinland USSR Czechoslovakia Kenya

Track: 10,000 metres

8

2

7

3

1

19

3

15

4

2

7

US NetherlandsAustralia Germany Hungary China

Swimming: 100m freestyle

56

10

19

13

8

3

19

4

8

54

2

Football

US ArgentinaHungary GB USSR UruguayUS ArgentinaCuba GB Italy Germany

Boxing:Heavyweight/super-heavyweight

11

55

7

9

56

34

32

1Ethiopia JapanUS France South Africa Italy

Marathon

5

34

32 2

89

12

4 4 4

USSR JapanUS Italy Romania

Artistic Gymnastics: Individual all-round

7

35

14

China

2

12

8

5

10

45

4

2

GB CanadaGermany US Australia Italy

12

5

10

12

4

77

2

6

2 21

Rowing: Coxless fours

Lux. 2ndGermany

1,260medals

400Gold

413 Silver, 447 Bronze

4thGreat Britain

714medals

207Gold

255 Silver, 252 Bronze

5thFrance

638medals

192Gold

212 Silver, 234 Bronze

6thItaly

521medals

190Gold

157 Silver, 174 Bronze

9thSweden

475medals

142Gold

160 Silver, 173 Bronze

8thHungary

458medals

159Gold

140 Silver, 159 Bronze

13thFinland

299medals

101Gold

83 Silver, 115 Bronze

14thRomania

292medals

86Gold

89 Silver, 117 Bronze

18thPoland

261medals

62Gold

80 Silver, 119 Bronze

15thNetherlands

246medals

70Gold

80 Silver, 96 Bronze

21stBulgaria

84 Silver, 77 Bronze

23rdSwitzerland

71 Silver, 65 Bronze

25thDenmark

63 Silver, 67 Bronze

Greece

42 Silver, 36 Bronze

Spain

49 Silver, 30 Bronze

Belgium

51 Silver, 51 Bronze

22ndCzechoslovakia

49 Silver, 45 Bronze

20thNorway

144medals

54Gold

48 Silver, 42 Bronze

Yugoslavia

31 Silver, 31 Bronze

Austria

33 Silver, 35 Bronze

Turkey

23 Silver, 22 Bronze

Czech Rep.

Ireland

Portugal

Slovakia

Slovenia

Croatia

Bohemia

Iceland

Serbia

Serbia &Montenegro

Macedonia

Mauritius

AFRICA

Kenya

28 Silver, 24 Bronze

South Africa

24 Silver, 26 Bronze

Ethiopia

Egypt

Nigeria

Morocco Algeria

Zimbabwe

Tunisia

Uganda

CameroonGhana

Namibia

Mozambique

Tanzania

Zambia

Burundi

IvoryCoast

Djibouti

Eritrea

NigerSenegalSudan

Togo

10thAustralia

432medals

131Gold

137 Silver, 164 Bronze

7thChina

385medals

163Gold

117 Silver, 105 Bronze

Afghanistan

ASIA

11thJapan

360medals

123Gold

112 Silver, 125 Bronze

16thSouth Korea

215medals

68Gold

74 Silver, 73 Bronze

New Zealand

16 Silver, 33 Bronze

North Korea

Indonesia

Thailand

India

Mongolia

Taiwan

Philippines

Pakistan

Australasia

Malaysia

Hong Kong

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Vietnam

Tonga

1stUS

2,297medals

930Gold

728 Silver, 639 Bronze

THE AMERICAS

EUROPE19thCanada

260medals

58Gold

94 Silver, 108 Bronze

17thCuba

194medals

67Gold

64 Silver, 63 Bronze

Brazil

25 Silver, 46 Bronze

Argentina

23 Silver, 26 Bronze

Jamaica

25 Silver, 17 BronzeMexico

18 Silver, 25 Bronze

Uruguay

Bahamas

VenzuelaColombia

Chile

Trinidad &Tobago

PuertoRico

Costa Rica

DominicanRep.

Peru

Panama

British West Indies

Ecuador

Haiti

Suriname

Barbados

Bermuda

Guyana

NetherlandsAntilles

Paraguay

Virgin Is

Iran

Israel

Lebanon

Syria

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Iraq

Kuwait

UAE

MIDDLE EAST

FORMER SOVIET UNION

3rdSoviet Union

1,010medals

395Gold

319 Silver, 296 Bronze

Ukraine

22 Silver, 46 Bronze

Belarus

19 Silver, 35 Bronze

Moldova

12thRussia

317medals

108Gold

97 Silver, 112 Bronze

24thUnified Team

38 Silver, 29 Bronze

Kazakhstan

Estonia

RussianEmpire

Armenia

Lithuania

Azerbaijan

Uzbekistan

Latvia

Georgia

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

SOURCE: IOCGRAPHIC: PAUL SCRUTON, MICHAEL ROBINSONDATA ANALYSIS: JOHN BURN-MURDOCH

Italy GermanyFrance Netherlands US Australia

Cycling: Road race

6

23 3

2 2

11 11

6 6

3 3 32

3 32 2

6

45

4

3

Independentcompetitors

17medals

8

Mixed-nationalityteams

As athletes prepare for the London Games, whose records are they trying to beat? This map shows every medal won by each country since the modern Olympics began in 1896. The data, from the International Olympic Committee, takes account of boundary and name changes over the past 116 years. What it doesn’t show is every medallist from the summer Games – we have counted team games as one medal. See how the medal superpowers of the United States, Russia and China have dominated the Games, but also how different countries dominate different sports

All predictions suggest that the United States will win

more medals than any other country in London

Goldman Sachs predicts that Britain could beat Russia into third place this year. This would be Team GB’s most successful performance for years

Who dominates which sports?These charts show how some countries succeed at certain sports. The US may dominate track and field and swimming, but their supremacy is being challenged by the Jamaicans in the sprints and African countries over longer distances

China could come second in London and even pip

the US to the top spot, but its medal success is

a recent phenomenon – bolstered by a huge

clutch of medals in Beijing four years ago

Larisa Latynia The Soviet gymnast won nine gold medals across the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Games

Nadia Comaneci Won five golds, three silvers

and a bronze at the Montreal and Moscow games. The first

gymnast in the modern era to score a perfect 10

South Korea has won 16 gold medals in archery since the competition took on its

modern form in 1972 –the same number as all the

other countries combined. Im Dong-hyun, below, was a gold medallist in Athens and

Beijing. He is legally blind

Paavo Nurmi of Finland was one of the greatest ever

distance runners, winning nine gold

medals in the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Games

Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopian runner who won the 10,000m in Sydney and Atlanta

Fanny Blankers-Koen The Dutch athlete won four golds in the 1948 London Games as a sprinter and hurdler but was also a world record-breaking pentathlete

Carl Lewis won nine gold medals between 1984 and

1992, and in 1984 equalled the feat of his hero Jesse

Owens (above) by winning four golds in one Games

At the height of the cold war, winning medals

was a political gesture as much as a sporting one.

The former Soviet Union is historically the third

biggest medal winner

Daley Thompson One of the greatest athletes Britain has produced, winning the decathlon gold in 1980 and 1984

Atlas of Olympic success The Games in numbersRead more on our datablog guardian.co.uk/data ≥

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