Each Country's Most Successful Summer Olympic Sport | Looking at Medal Statistics

I looked at all the 206 Olympic nations to determine which sport each country is best at!
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[@valentinpy409]

Could you make the reversed version where instead of looking at best sport per country you looked at most successful country in each sport, it could be very interesting

[@binaryvoid0101]

no, that’s a bad idea. i disagree.

[@MorganM-lw3ix]

i like the idea

[@classypotato9255]

yes, that's a good idea. I agree

[@donnie1725]

​@binaryvoid0101 why do you think so?

[@jewlz1355]

​@donnie1725 because us and China and gbr will make up 75% of it

[@FiddcoProductions]

People are asking for a map with weighted medals (which means that Gold counts for 3 points, Silver counts for 2 and bronze counts as 1). I'll work on it and make an updated video that includes the results from Paris! Edit: Here is the link to the new video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGaQm4V_iK-drJY

[@mayeet1179]

can u also make a vid showing which Country is the most dominat in each sport using ur percantages ?

[@robertvirnig638]

If you are going to calculate these numbers anyway, it would be interesting to see what sports the countries are dominating recently, like the last 2 decades.

[@Spud607]

I'm surprised you didn't pick up on Rugby 7s and Argentina. I thought it would have been soccer there!

[@NSq12]

It should be 5,3,1 instead

[@fmac6441]

@@NSq12and 0,5 for combat sport because of the 2 bronzes

[@davidcano7819]

When you do the Winter Olympics. Canada's sport of choice won't be hockey, it'll be curling. Of the 16 events that they've taken part in, they've only been off the podium for 4 of them

[@dalenesbitt]

Makes sense. There's far more people who curl than hock (props to Bowser & Blue).

[@cooperlevesque6097]

Spoilers 😅😂

[@samuelzackrisson8865]

I wonder if it will be the same for sweden

[@violetevergarden5160]

Norway is gonna have a hard time just picking one.

[@josephfoulger9628]

@@violetevergarden5160 I’m going to guess at cross-country skiing

[@rosariogonzalez6130]

i would divide athletics in track AND field events, its very different to throw a hammer than to sprint 100m. and even further, i would divide them by categories, short-middle-long distance running, throwing, jumping, bc for example, jamaicans dominate sprints, but kenians are masters at long distance running

[@SinaHeuberger]

Fun fact about Korean handball: they’ve actually already played as “united korea” in the olympics

[@josephfoulger9628]

@@SinaHeuberger in womens ice hockey too

[@jvwilliams]

You should make the medals weighted. Curious about that

[@IHT_OW]

Yeah, this matters a lot imo

[@MrHouse69420]

Wdym

[@haydosplays5624]

@@MrHouse69420 eg Gold = 5 points, Silver = 3, Bronze = 1

[@MrHouse69420]

@haydosplays5624 OK thanks for the clarification have a great day 👍

[@shake4259]

​@@haydosplays5624 do you think 5,3,1 or 3,2,1 is better?

[@parodic6572]

Olympics medals per capita also give really interesting results too. As of august 4th, the US for example is only 34th.

[@AKPhilly]

Per capita is just cope tbh

[@mappplesirrup8473]

@@AKPhillywhy? bigger countries have the advantage in terms of a talent pool, per capita seems like an interesting look at how good countries are respective to their size.

[@zitronensaaft3454]

@@mappplesirrup8473 per capita is actually unfair to bigger countries, a country with only a hundred thousand or million winning a gold would mean that large countries like the us or china would have to win hundreds or even thousands of golds to keep up capita wise, which is certainly far more impressive than one gold, and past a certain point it is literally impossible. Countries also have limited entries per event, so similar to senators with small states, smaller nations can field more athletes per population, although this is less of a problem as smaller countries often do not send athletes for nearly as many events as larger ones because they do not qualify for other reasons. I think this video has a pretty fair analysis that doesn't favor small or large countries too much kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5e1kJKCjameiMk

[@wiilli4471]

@@mappplesirrup8473 Because the size of the country has nothing to do with how many athletes they send., The US sends the most athletes because they QUALIFY in pre-olympic tournaments. Not only that, but the US is one of the only national teams to receive zero government funding. Its massive cope for those that don't want to accept the reality that the US is by FAR the best Olympic nation and it isn't even close.

[@mappplesirrup8473]

@@wiilli4471 i dont understand why i see this take so often. size isnt beneficial because bigger countries send more people, but because bigger countries have bigger talent pools. look at the highschool level for example, schools are stratified into divisions based off of how big they are because bigger schools will naturally have better athletes, not because they have more athletes

[@lorddashdonalddappington2653]

I think that a 24-32 year cutoff would be sensible. That way you get either the 21st century games or the post-cold war games.

[@sangothens]

very interesting work! only positive feedback would be that i believe that by rendering the final map more appealing and easy to read (with names of country written) the overall quality of video would skyrocket as the content behind already is very interesting!

[@profotoce3504]

Not agree, the map would be unreadable with the name of the country everywhere. And most people know what country is what no ?

[@sangothens]

@@profotoce3504 nowadays with dynamic maps it really is possible to do so without making it unreadable, idk about you mate but even if i consider myself pretty okay at geography, i still can't really tell on a consistent basis which which country is which in central america, eastern europe and middle east

[@AKPhilly]

The current Olympic method of only caring about gold is stupid but treating a bronze just like a gold is also stupid so weighted probably makes the most sense.

[@LeeGion_981]

Maybe they should do a points system. 5 points for a gold 3 for silver and 1 for bronze.

[@drmarquez146]

Maybe i didnt understood how you made your graph, because you list Mexico as being succesfull in soccer with 2 gold medals but Mexico most medals are in diving (15 total) boxing (13 total) and athletics (11 total)

[@KasumiRINA]

Wait did he count each player's medal separately? XD 11 football medals plus the benched players.

[@josephfoulger9628]

@@drmarquez146 it’s about percentage of medals ever handed out in that sport. There’s only 2 football medals at each Olympics but dozens in diving

[@NoisqueVoaProduction]

I was just wondering exactly this question! Once I learned that France's most succesfull sport is fencing. Makes sense, but still surprising. I'm brazilian, btw. And our most succesful sports are Judo and Sailing, kinda random, but yeah.

[@Beater]

As a Dane I've always felt this weird kinship with South Korea; we just seem to enjoy all of the same sports. Whenever I see a Korean competitor on the other side of the court my thought are basically: "Oh no, not these guys again!" Much love from Denmark

[@ericmarseille2]

South Korea has a solid feminine handball base, as, it seems, Angola. North Africa has a solid masculine base. The rest seems to be mostly Europe, mostly Northern and Eastern Europe, with only Spain and France as powerhouses in Western Europe.

[@harubynspades]

Romania is also a powerhouse in handball, we had a four time best player in the world in women's.

[@deweypatch]

I saw Greenland and was more surprised that they won a medal than that said medal was in sailing. Then I remembered Greenland is owned by Denmark.

[@terryrichmond4428]

Greenland is actually part of North America

[@DanielGarcia-si5rv]

Who counts 2nd place for superbowl wins? Or NBA rings no one. Gold is most important

[@user-ir8er1bh4q]

You could also have assigned a point system for each medal. 1P for Bronze 2P for Silver 4P for Gold Thats atleast the way how they should rank the countrys in my opinion.

[@keymot1491]

Saudi Arabia having equestrian as their best sport fits them very well!

[@keymot1491]

South Korea being the best in archery as well

[@henreereeman8529]

noone asked bro

[@keymot1491]

@@henreereeman8529 henree will u win in guggling black balls olympics

[@parezd]

1:27 turning off the vid

[@ianlogan6280]

Lol same

[@pebble312]

Yeah when i heard that i was like wtf? lol im still gonna watch the video but it makes significantly more sense to just weigh golds more heavily than silver and bronze, which I think he said he’s gonna do in the comments. He said he’s gonna do one with gold worth 3 points, silver worth 2, and bronze worth 1, which I’m honestly shocked wasn’t the no-brainer plan to begin with. 😅 Personally i might put like 5 points on gold, then 2 (maybe 3) for silver, and 1 for bronze. That way every medal counts but significant enough importance is placed on golds

[@flare2000x]

Do a winter Olympics version! It would even be interesting to see a combined version to see if a nation's best sport is in the summer or winter.

[@MrFreakHeavy]

Why not count ranking? 1 point per rank, and so the higher the point the worse you did. Weigh it by how many times they participated (maybe a division). It's not the same doing well over 5 perticipations, and 15 participations. This also avoids the fact that no participantion would equal LESS points, which could lead to the assumption thay they did better. There could be more to it, like how many participants they had, meaning, of two participated then the score would increase, so averaging per participant per participation would be better, weighted score per participant could be considered... not all cointries get to have multiple participant and this is important.

[@awsomerobyn2603]

This is what we have been saying since we are from a country who has like 1/5 of the USA competitors. We do pretty well for ourselves. I think it should be an average score depending on how many participants and then they should do something like gold is worth 3 points, silver 2 and bronze 1. Just seems more objective then, not so subjective

[@luisdominguez2087]

the ancient OG had no models only the winner was celebrated. I suppose silver and bronze were created to incentivise people that still made a good job. Also good job with your data analysis . sounds and looks interesting. The asymmetries in Olympic performance are all the time more evident.

[@Ma1k.]

When looking at handball, you have Korea, Egypt, Brasil being the biggest countries playing handball outside of Europe. Korea in particular excels in female handball while it got a silver medal in the 80's or in the 90's (I don't remember)in the men competition, but got overruled by European powerhouses ever since

[@henriklarssonstanaccount5599]

I agree that bronze and silver are important but ranking countries by gold absolutely does not “go against the spirit of the games” it’s literally ranking the events won

[@agneseditsstuff]

dude you're amazing for doing all this work!! awesome job

[@faesk]

The Korean women’s handball team was a very good team back in the day getting to the semifinals 8 times in a row and winning back to back in 88’ and 92’, their dominance can also be seen in the Asian games where Korea has 7/9 golds on the women’s side and the men’s side has 6/11

[@milip2722]

Give you a like for the Del Po reference ❤ Those two medals worth a lot for us 🇦🇷

[@turnleft8645]

Zimbabwe winning Olympic gold for Women's Hockey was quite cool

[@hippobed2849]

Weighted medals should go like 5-2-1 as being Olympic champion is so significant compared to Olympic medalist

[@supremelore_1533]

Awesome work, awesome content. Only 1 thing I wanna say, I feel it's a little unfair to cut out all former soviet medals rather than giving it to the athletes who won it. Say a Belarussian won under the soviet union in 1980, it should be listed under Belarus. It's too many years cut out, I'm sure this doesn't apply to West Germany, and it results in Russia's Gymnastics successes being ignored as well as others. That's all

[@bks-54321]

I’m surprised Japan wasn’t in the running for wrestling. They were the second best team after the Soviet’s during that period, and now their women’s team is really dominant too.

[@christopherx7428]

Great video! The patterns can be hard to identify on small countries, though. I also agree very strongly that only ranking by gold medal is silly and probably due to general laziness as it is easier to sort a table that way. However. total medals may be better but is still not really good as 10 bronze would rank as better than 9 golds. So, as many have stated, a 3-2-1 would have been best. Ofc, just to complicate matters, then you should really take shared medals into account, e.g. if both losing semifinalists get a bronze that is 0,5p etc.

[@erikareading]

As a Canadian I am also not surprised our best summer Olympic sport is rowing. I took a guess before the video started and thought it would be!

[@jamemarkcaling6760]

I dont agree that medals are all equal!!! U r kidding me. Lol

[@jonnyOysters]

Not sure why you had Tennis for South Africa. South Africa has had 6 Medals for tennis. But we have had way more medals in Athletics, Swimming and boxing. Boxing has had 19 medals. Swimming 20 and Athletics 28.

[@JackHartista]

This just got recommended by the algorithm to me and I must salute you for the interesting video. As most of the pople watching it I was curious about my own country and I got surprised by seeing that Sailing was the most successful sport category for Portugal, I didn't know this because it has been quite some time since we've had medals in sailing, I was imagining that Track & Field or Athletics would be the number 1. After the video I took a look at the spreadsheet and I noticed that Portugal didn't have any medals counted in Cycling, Canoeing and Athletics for example, now I know for a fact that we did have medals in those categories, prior to the making of the video, and that just in the Marathon specificaly Portugal as 3 medals and at least a couple more in the 10000 m. Thank you for the interesting video.

[@FiddcoProductions]

Thank you for the kind words! I didn't include every sport for each country in the spreadsheet, just the ones that had the potential to be the respected country's best sport. Portugal has certainly won medals in many more sports and hopefully they can continue to win even more!

[@alexander_bone]

There is no way this guy isn’t Hoser

[@joycin123]

Incredible video! Been wondering about this for a while. Thank you for uploading!

[@anubis520]

It is an eye opening video. I do think it is hard to get a concrete idea of which is which when sports like boxing have 7 weight classes for men and 6 for women, or weightlifting that has 5 for each which are all literally the same sport with the same rules. Then you have a sport like shotput that is nothing like long jump and just because they fall under the banner of athletics, it feels like its weighted against the sport. I'm not saying this is a bad video, you have to find a way to balance it, there is just always a consequence when you have to condense things into categories. Just to complain, It still does not make sense that shooting has a category separating men and women when it doesn't need it. Equestrian for example has men and women compete against each other because there is no advantage. The amount of medals in some of these sports, combat sports in particular is super inflated. Imagine if we had a basketball tournament for every 5cm of height...

[@DavidBainGaming]

Another thing to think about is historical vs recent performances Historically the US has the most rowing/canoe/kayak medals, but in the last 4 olympics, it is New Zealand who has dominated it, same for Australia and swimming

[@liamglass3300]

Not going to lie these rules are way too confusing for the average viewer

[@harshgarg1448]

I believe wrestling or shooting would be sport for India, I don't know how you reached to badminton.

[@Simona0707]

Bulgaria has 230 olympic medals but our most successful one is def weightlifting(37 medals) and high jump(holding the world record for 37 years)

[@faizanrizwan786]

Hey! Nice vid! Please make a video going over each country on their sport of success, while giving a small background. That would be very informative!

[@samplautz5586]

Can you clarify about tennis? You showed a picture of a mixed doubles match which has me really confused as to how that isn’t a team sport. At least the doubles portion. The singles portion obviously isnt

[@RockinFootball_23]

I guess it’s because his definition of a team sport is when they only have 2 events for the sport. One for the men and another for the women. Also athletes can compete in multiple events in tennis. Heck you can play up to 3 events. The singles, doubles and mixed doubles. So it’s possible for a person to earn more than 1 medal in the sport.

[@KasumiRINA]

​@@RockinFootball_23Rafa absolutely took home both singles and doubles before and so did Fernando Gonzalez.

[@rogoznicafc9672]

medals should just count like gold=3, silver=2 and brone=1 point. Or maybe make gold 3,5 and then have points sytem

[@RandomStuffTutorials]

I agree, total medals is better

[@Jolgeable]

Impressive job. Well done and explained.

[@argusy3866]

Argentinian here: yeah I was also surprised our most succesful sports are boxing and sailing. Also, wouldnt call it "unfair" at all, but there is something that doesnt click with me when a country has like 70 medals and 50 come from athletism, gimnastics or swimming. Like there is one for 100mts, 200, 400, multiple variants, mens, women, mixed... If your country is good at those disciplines, you have a top 5 position guaranteed.

[@KasumiRINA]

Yes and sports like wrestling limit BOTH one person per country in each weight category and one possible medal for a wrestler. The guy who got 5 golds? That's 16 years. Meanwhile, a swimmer got 4 just this one. It's even more ridiculous in Paralympics but that has a very good reason as person without limbs can rarely do many other sports and they have like 10 levels of handicap too.

[@chemicalfrankie1030]

Awesome video!!!!

[@pedroamarante576]

Maybe next time do a list instead of map, easier to check the smaller countries

[@user-ug5ns7vs8b]

Every medal should count as equal. I beg to differ, And if you believe all medals are created equal , just ask any athlete if she/he prefers 5 silver medals or 1 gold medal. I have never met with a displeased gold medalist, as silver and bronze medalists are generally disappointed. But when you revealed your citizenship, I was not even surprised. Do not know why so many Canadian stick to this funny idea. No later than yesterday night, invited by friends (I live in the Québec Province), and speaking of medal standings in Paris, there was an overwhelming majority thinking total medals count should prevail. So Canadian...

[@petrus9067]

I thought it was a very american behavior

[@mcloughlinguy4127]

@@petrus9067nah americans like winners 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@jcplays3842]

I think when the table is counted, count all medal with a weighted score. Cause if you only count gold, might as well not hand out silver or bronze

[@arienesantos7891]

​@@mcloughlinguy4127 I've read somewhere they count total because they could be at the top (China had more gold medals last week)

[@BuissonYt]

Hi sir, first of all congratulations on your work this must have taken a while and I find this map very great and relevant. I was wondering if you planned to update it after the results in Paris? Since you already have all the data and it's still fresh it should make it much faster to do and I feel like this map has to be kept up to date for its importance... Cheers!

[@Faisaltm2]

Great work, thank you

[@light8058]

You could also divide which sport every country is successful at by gender

[@stevqtalent]

an american disliking the IOC's gold-prioritized ranking? colour me shocked 😅 yalls media literally the only ones in the world doing it differently so US makes #1 more often

[@nilechristensen728]

Dang man- im making Olympic content too but this is crazyy high quality stuff man. Good work and congrats on the viral video

[@ebber_]

Can we see a map for the winter Olympics

[@GamersOdyssey]

There is no way your map is right, Greece and Turkey Tae kwon do???? what???? We got like one gold and one silver in Tae kwon do in Greece but we have tons on weightlifting, we are definitely weight lifting countries what are you talking about?

[@FiddcoProductions]

Greece has won a medal in 8% of taekwondo events and only 6.5% of weightlifting events

[@dahu4046]

i thought poland was more succesfull in volleyball, after this olympics they are rightly so, we had very good representation in last 20 or maybe even 30 years but always hadnt had luck in olympics i feel like

[@keizan5132]

Silver and bronze are just a tiebreaking criterium. The second place is the first loser, imagine taking losers into account for something else than a tiebreaker (Absolute sarcasm, in case you didn't notice)

[@Fetulaa]

I was quite suprised by Czechia, as I thought we were better at canoeing.

[@fmac6441]

Very suprising that Brasil have more inclination to judo than sailing.

[@Aloha698]

Japanese immigration was massive here , we were very influenced by it ..but we have won 7 gold medals and 3 silver , throughout the years , in sailing. I think judô has more medals , because they have more disputes during the games

[@LeJunker]

I think the best is to give 1 point to bronze two to silver and 4 to gold

[@jayfielding1333]

Iceland should be athletics, no? One triple jump medal, one pole vault medal and one judo medal?

[@trevorhanlin4247]

everyone knows that the US sport would be tug-of-war if non-current sports are counted!

[@zeccy337]

Whats the point of gold medals if youre going to make each medal weigh the same? At least use a weighted medal system..

[@tilenjk02]

Slovenia never won a tennis medal and here is most successful in it?

[@Rainbow_Taxi_1A]

You should've usted weighted scores for medals. Of course a gold performance surpassed a silver one...

[@robbrobb3233]

You didn't include rugby?

[@noice5892]

Greg Lugainis hard carried the US ngl

[@mithy7525]

Ew, another guy on the internet discrediting winners because another country is better at not winning And it could've been such an interesting video

[@mattdaniel6071]

nice job!

[@agentzoki8114]

Nice vid

[@alexroberts771]

Medals should be broken down into points, 3 for a gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze

[@londy3127]

BADMINTON FOR INDONESIA

[@terryrichmond4428]

Oceania is not a continent. It is a region

[@Neverrgreen]

Counting by total.medals and not gold medals is a very canada thing

[@Kurauzzo]

Gold > total medals because Silver is the first loser. That’s why Kosovo is above Ukraine: They just have 2 winners, Ukraine 1

[@EvelynSaungikar]

I’m surprised Canada’s sport is not canoeing.

[@diamonddog13]

It's as surprising as the US sport not being shooting.

[@T3Draco]

Stopped watching when you decided to count via total medals instead of golds. Olympics count by gold, why would you do differently. Stupid idea.

[@casperkruger348]

Why is gold models better than total medals? Let me help you Mr American. Who won the most Super Bowls? Now who lost the Super Bowl the most? Is the team the came 2nd 10 times better than the team that actually won the thing at least once? You are welcome. O wait I see you are Canadian, good thing I didn't assume your gender

[@LeeGion_981]

Disagree, Gold is more important than Silver and Bronze. The medal table should represent Olympic champions not the two best LOSERS.

[@strittypringles379]

Total medals ain’t it sorry

[@S11Player]

Love from india ❤

[@LeksDee]

carykh

[@PersonManManManMan]

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[@S4BRETOOTH]

Great video, and I agree with you with the medal count.

[@daydreamer8662]

I thought the US's best event was whining and complaining

[@CitrusMike]

fym

[@daydreamer8662]

@@CitrusMike You sound American, proving my point

[@CitrusMike]

@@daydreamer8662 what is your point tho, who’s complaining

[@daydreamer8662]

as you said, fym

[@CitrusMike]

@@daydreamer8662 is that the best explanation you can come up with?

[@robintaberner]

Yes, yes, yes, enough of the way you rigged it to say whatever. Did you have to spend half the video explaining it? OK. This is complete and utter bullsh1t. If after your extensive analysis you come up with Great Britain’s best sport is Tennis? This garbage proves there’s lies, damn lies and statistics! Ridiculous.

[@user-jt8nl2sn4h]

You forgot to include Ohio

[@daninaidu]

It's not a country

[@gurt00]

​@@daninaidu*it's THE country. ITS OHIO

[@1nky_]

bro the meme is over why are we still joking about ohio

[@jamesmcfadyen8182]

He also forgot Dong Johnson’s medals in breakdancing