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Top Ten Medal Winners

This page shows how well the top ten official medal winners of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics fare when the results are adjusted by other factors. These factors are the countries’ GDP, population, geographic area, and number of athletes sent to the games.

Unadjusted Results:

Country	Total	Rank	Gold	Rank	Points	Rank
United States USA	37	1	9	3	103	1
Germany GER	30	2	14	1	96	2
Canada CAN	26	3	10	2	96	2
Norway NOR	23	4	9	3	75	4
Austria AUT	16	5	4	9	44	6
Russian Fed. RUS	15	6	3	11	37	7
Korea KOR	14	7	6	5	50	5
China CHN	11	8	5	7	35	8
Sweden SWE	11	8	5	7	35	8
France FRA	11	8	2	12	25	12

Results adjusted by GDP:

Country	Total	Rank	Gold	Rank	Points	Rank
United States USA	2.60	23	1.6	23	0.21	26
Germany GER	10.67	15	12.8	15	0.36	25
Canada CAN	20.20	11	39.6	6	0.78	24
Norway NOR	83.18	2	68.7	3	14.47	16
Austria AUT	49.52	5	24.8	11	27.86	10
Russian Fed. RUS	7.13	19	3.3	20	5.23	20
Korea KOR	10.42	16	11.9	16	3.72	22
China CHN	1.25	24	1.5	24	0.80	23
Sweden SWE	33.01	7	27.0	10	21.01	12
France FRA	5.21	21	3.3	21	5.68	19

Results adjusted by population:

Country	Total	Rank	Gold	Rank	Points	Rank
United States USA	“8,303,030”	20	“13,357,049”	21	“2,982,642”	20
Germany GER	“2,744,325”	13	“2,286,938”	13	“857,602”	14
Canada CAN	“1,287,970”	8	“656,612”	4	“348,825”	6
Norway NOR	“202,632”	1	“245,292”	1	“62,141”	1
Austria AUT	“513,143”	2	“1,026,285”	8	“186,597”	2
Russian Fed. RUS	“9,336,083”	21	“20,005,892”	23	“3,784,899”	21
Korea KOR	“3,464,927”	16	“3,031,811”	16	“970,179”	15
China CHN	“121,692,088”	26	“102,970,228”	26	“38,246,085”	26
Sweden SWE	“823,605”	5	“1,006,628”	7	“258,847”	4
France FRA	“5,823,436”	18	“9,151,113”	20	“2,562,312”	19

Results adjusted by physical area:

Country	Total	Rank	Gold	Rank	Points	Rank
United States USA	“102,543”	21	“421,567”	16	“36,836”	21
Germany GER	“4,595”	7	“13,785”	5	“1,436”	6
Canada CAN	“148,273”	22	“275,365”	15	“40,157”	22
Norway NOR	“5,436”	8	“13,891”	6	“1,667”	7
Austria AUT	“2,024”	3	“8,096”	4	736	3
Russian Fed. RUS	“440,111”	24	“2,200,556”	19	“178,423”	24
Korea KOR	“2,750”	5	“6,417”	3	770	4
China CHN	“336,855”	23	“741,082”	17	“105,869”	23
Sweden SWE	“15,805”	12	“34,772”	9	“4,967”	12
France FRA	“22,584”	15	“124,214”	14	“9,937”	16

Results adjusted by number of athletes sent to the Olympics:

Country	Total	Rank	Gold	Rank	Points	Rank
United States USA	5.81	7	23.89	10	2.09	6
Germany GER	5.07	6	15.20	5	1.58	4
Canada CAN	7.88	9	14.64	4	2.14	7
Norway NOR	4.30	4	11.00	3	1.32	3
Austria AUT	5.06	5	20.25	8	1.84	5
Russian Fed. RUS	11.80	14	59.00	17	4.78	15
Korea KOR	3.29	1	7.67	1	0.92	1
China CHN	8.18	10	18.00	6	2.57	8
Sweden SWE	9.64	12	21.20	9	3.03	10
France FRA	9.73	13	53.50	16	4.28	13