Canada Small population, big medal haul
It’s no surprise that the world’s athletic powers, the United States and China, stood atop the medal standings when the Paris Olympic Games concluded Aug. 11.
August 19, 2024
But Canada's best-ever medal haul of 27, based on population, was sixth for per-capita medals behind New Zealand (20 medals from a country with 5.3 million people … one medal for every 265,000 people), Australia (53 medals, 27 million population (one medal per 500,000 citizens), the Netherlands, which finished sixth overall with 34 total medals (one medal per 529,000 people), Great Britain (one medal per one million people) and Italy (one per approximately 1.4 million).
Disappointingly for our friends to the south, the United States was well back, winning one medal per approximately 2.66 million people.
Canada's athletes were outstanding, with our country's 27 medals, including nine golds, working out to one medal per 1.5 million people. That's nearly twice as good as the Americans' total.
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