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West Germany + East Germany + Germany = 68 gold medals
with the add of Soviet gold medals for Russia (31) = 52
with the add of Soviet gold medals for Ukraine (16) = 18
this top-20 looks the other way with corrections
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How many of them East-Finnsh? : - )
When you look at per capita statistics Finland's performance look even more impressive. Which Olympic sports do Finns excel at?
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Yeah it is pretty mindblow statistic eventho you can start to bitch that most of these medals have been won way back, but still total medal count is ridiculous for country Finland-sized.
You mean in track&field? Best events for Finland are probably Men's Javelin throw: 7 golds, 8 silver, 7 bronze.
Then Men's 10 000 metres: 7 golds, 4 silver, 4 bronze
and Men's 5000 metres: 7 golds, 4 silver, 3 bronze
Outside track and field, historically successful event for Finland is Greco-Roman wrestling where Finland stands third in all time medal table
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If you divide the number of athletes sent by each team by the number of medals won by the team, Finland still ranks tenth.
"Unified Team" was the name of the team of the former Soviet Union in the 1992 Olympics.
Sent athletes per
won medalsWon medals Sent athletes Team 2.82 109 307 East Germany (GDR) 3.00 795 2384 United States (USA) 3.50 2 7 British West Indies (BWI) 3.69 193 713 Soviet Union (URS) 3.71 96 356 Kenya (KEN) 3.94 53 209 Ethiopia (ETH) 4.71 21 99 Unified Team (EUN) 5.18 77 399 Jamaica (JAM) 5.50 4 22 Namibia (NAM) 5.70 114 650 Finland (FIN) 7.28 43 313 West Germany (FRG) 7.67 3 23 Panama (PAN) 7.67 24 184 New Zealand (NZL) 7.67 30 230 United Team of Germany (EUA) 7.69 35 269 Romania (ROU) 7.92 205 1623 Great Britain (GBR) 8.12 41 333 Cuba (CUB) 8.26 81 669 Sweden (SWE) 8.47 19 161 Morocco (MAR) 8.54 28 239 South Africa (RSA) 8.56 80 685 Germany (GER) 8.76 62 543 Russia (RUS) 9.00 1 9 Tajikistan (TJK) 9.15 73 668 Australia (AUS) 9.73 15 146 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) 10.20 5 51 Croatia (CRO) 10.74 57 612 Poland (POL) 11.00 13 143 Czech Republic (CZE) 11.20 5 56 Tunisia (TUN) 11.32 31 351 China (CHN) 11.50 2 23 Burundi (BDI) 11.54 24 277 Czechoslovakia (TCH) 12.22 9 110 Algeria (ALG) 12.28 60 737 Canada (CAN) 12.84 19 244 Bulgaria (BUL) 12.88 60 773 Italy (ITA) 13.00 3 39 Bahrain (BRN) 13.00 12 156 Bahamas (BAH) 13.20 20 264 Norway (NOR) 13.32 40 533 Hungary (HUN) 13.83 30 415 Greece (GRE) 14.00 1 14 Australasia (ANZ) 14.07 14 197 Belarus (BLR) 15.00 2 30 Mozambique (MOZ) 15.33 3 46 Dominican Republic (DOM) 15.86 69 1094 France (FRA) 16.00 2 32 Grenada (GRN) 16.82 17 286 Ukraine (UKR) 18.00 1 18 Bohemia (BOH) 18.33 6 110 Estonia (EST) 20.25 4 81 Slovenia (SLO) 20.38 13 265 Nigeria (NGR) 20.38 16 326 Netherlands (NED) 22.00 1 22 Djibouti (DJI) 22.40 5 112 Lithuania (LTU) 22.64 25 566 Japan (JPN) 22.88 17 389 Brazil (BRA) 23.60 5 118 Latvia (LAT) 25.30 10 253 Portugal (POR) 25.33 3 76 Qatar (QAT) 25.50 2 51 Sri Lanka (SRI) 25.71 7 180 Denmark (DEN) 25.91 11 285 Mexico (MEX) 26.00 1 26 Serbia (SRB) 26.75 4 107 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 27.00 1 27 Syria (SYR) 28.00 1 28 Eritrea (ERI) 29.08 12 349 Belgium (BEL) 29.50 2 59 Ecuador (ECU) 30.00 3 90 Uganda (UGA) 31.71 7 222 Austria (AUT) 32.00 2 64 Cameroon (CMR) 33.00 5 165 Argentina (ARG) 34.00 2 68 Philippines (PHI) 35.00 7 245 Ireland (IRL) 36.50 14 511 Spain (ESP) 38.00 2 76 Venezuela (VEN) 38.50 2 77 Chinese Taipei (TPE) 39.50 2 79 Tanzania (TAN) 40.00 1 40 Sudan (SUD) 41.25 8 330 Switzerland (SUI) 43.00 1 43 Iran (IRI) 44.50 2 89 Iceland (ISL) 44.67 3 134 Colombia (COL) 47.00 3 141 Turkey (TUR) 48.00 1 48 Haiti (HAI) 50.00 1 50 Guatemala (GUA) 51.00 1 51 Zambia (ZAM) 55.00 1 55 Botswana (BOT) 58.00 1 58 Luxembourg (LUX) 62.50 2 125 Chile (CHI) 66.00 1 66 Barbados (BAR) 70.00 1 70 Ivory Coast (CIV) 71.00 1 71 Slovakia (SVK) 77.00 1 77 Saudi Arabia (KSA) 85.00 2 170 Yugoslavia (YUG) 94.50 2 189 India (IND) 101.00 2 202 South Korea (KOR) 116.00 1 116 Puerto Rico (PUR) 118.00 1 118 Senegal (SEN) N/A 0 2 North Borneo (NBO) N/A 0 2 United Arab Republic (UAR) N/A 0 3 South Yemen (YMD) N/A 0 4 Brunei (BRU) N/A 0 4 Marshall Islands (MHL) N/A 0 4 Montenegro (MNE) N/A 0 4 South Vietnam (VNM) N/A 0 4 Tuvalu (TUV) N/A 0 5 East Timor (TLS) N/A 0 5 Kiribati (KIR) N/A 0 5 Rhodesia (RHO) N/A 0 6 North Yemen (YAR) N/A 0 6 Saar (SAA) N/A 0 8 Aruba (ARU) N/A 0 8 Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) N/A 0 8 Macedonia (MKD) N/A 0 8 Monaco (MON) N/A 0 8 Palau (PLW) N/A 0 8 Palestine (PLE) N/A 0 9 American Samoa (ASA) N/A 0 9 Cape Verde (CPV) N/A 0 9 Turkmenistan (TKM) N/A 0 10 Albania (ALB) N/A 0 10 Guinea-Bissau (GBS) N/A 0 10 Malaya (MAL) N/A 0 10 Samoa (SAM) N/A 0 10 São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) N/A 0 11 Andorra (AND) N/A 0 11 Cook Islands (COK) N/A 0 12 Cayman Islands (CAY) N/A 0 12 Comoros (COM) N/A 0 12 Netherlands Antilles (AHO) N/A 0 13 Armenia (ARM) N/A 0 13 Dominica (DMA) N/A 0 13 Georgia (GEO) N/A 0 13 Independent Olympic Participants (IOP) N/A 0 13 Yemen (YEM) N/A 0 14 Cambodia (CAM) N/A 0 14 Saint Lucia (LCA) N/A 0 14 Solomon Islands (SOL) N/A 0 15 Afghanistan (AFG) N/A 0 16 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) N/A 0 16 Malta (MLT) N/A 0 16 Mongolia (MGL) N/A 0 16 Tonga (TGA) N/A 0 17 Azerbaijan (AZE) N/A 0 17 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Seychelles (SEY) N/A 0 29 Indonesia (INA) N/A 0 29 Nicaragua (NCA) N/A 0 30 Equatorial Guinea (GEQ) N/A 0 31 Belize (BIZ) N/A 0 31 Chad (CHA) N/A 0 31 Rwanda (RWA) N/A 0 32 Uruguay (URU) N/A 0 33 Benin (BEN) N/A 0 33 Nepal (NEP) N/A 0 34 Iraq (IRQ) N/A 0 34 Papua New Guinea (PNG) N/A 0 35 Malawi (MAW) N/A 0 35 The Gambia (GAM) N/A 0 36 North Korea (PRK) N/A 0 37 Lesotho (LES) N/A 0 37 Mauritius (MRI) N/A 0 38 Guyana (GUY) N/A 0 39 Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) N/A 0 40 Bermuda (BER) N/A 0 41 Fiji (FIJ) N/A 0 42 Egypt (EGY) N/A 0 42 Republic of the Congo (CGO) N/A 0 43 Madagascar (MAD) N/A 0 45 Kuwait (KUW) N/A 0 45 Virgin Islands (ISV) N/A 0 46 Liberia (LBR) N/A 0 47 Cyprus (CYP) N/A 0 50 Malaysia (MAS) N/A 0 52 Moldova (MDA) N/A 0 53 Antigua and Barbuda (ANT) N/A 0 56 Peru (PER) N/A 0 57 Zimbabwe (ZIM) N/A 0 58 Sierra Leone (SLE) N/A 0 59 Israel (ISR) N/A 0 69 Uzbekistan (UZB) N/A 0 87 Pakistan (PAK) N/A 0 118 Thailand (THA) N/A 0 129 Ghana (GHA)
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Universe, I checked origins of javelin medallists
2 golds for Karelians
2 golds for Tavastians
1 gold for Ostrobothnia
1 gold for Kymi (East)
1 gold for Arto Härkönen born in Helsinki, but Härkönen is old Savo-Karelian family so I count him East Finnish.
1 silver for Tavastia
4 silver for Karelia
1 silver for Hollola. Hollolaians are technically Tavastians but I've heard Hollola-Lahtians appear genetically rather East Finnish. Anyhoo I've no reason to be picky so I count him western man.
1 silver for Central Finland
1 silver for Savonia.
1 bronze for Helsinki
3 bronze for Karelia
1 bronze for Southwest Finland
1 bronze Ostrobothnia
1 bronze for Central Finland
So overall we have
Karelians: 2 golds, 4 silver, 3 bronze
Tavastians: 2 golds, 2 silver
Savonia: 1 gold (I count Härkönen Savonian), 1 silver
Ostrobothnia: 1 gold, 1 bronze
Kymi: 1 gold
Central Finland: 1 silver, 1 bronze
Southwest Finland: 1 bronze
Helsinki: 1 bronze
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