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NZ Ranked Fourth In Medals Per Capita

Behind Bahrain, Estonia and Jamaca New Zealand is ranked fourth in the medals won per captita at the Beijing Olympics

When Tom Ashley won the third gold for New Zealand at the Beijing Olympics NZS.com reported:

This brings New Zealand’s Olympic Medals tally to 9 medals so far, with still 4 competition days to go! This is the best effort since Barcelona 1992 when we took home 10 medals total. The three Olympic Games between Barcelona and Beijing produced just an average of five medals per Games - so with a few medal hopes still to come we are likely to make 2008 our best games ever - topping the historical top tally of Seoul 1988 with 13 medals.

Per capita, New Zealand Olympic athletes now rank fourth in the world for medal wins, with just Bahrain (pop 760,000, 1 medal), Estonia (pop 1.34 million, 2 medals) and Jamaica (pop 2.71 million, 5 medals) ahead of New Zealand’s population of just over 4 million. Before the Olympic Games 2008, New Zealand ranked 6th in the world per capita for medal wins.

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