Most people are probably aware that the United States won the most medals during the London Olympics. America won 104 medals, divided into 46 gold, 29 silver and 29 bronze.

China was the clear runner-up, with a total of 87 medals, divided into 38 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze, while host nation England was third with a total of 29 gold and 65 medals.

Russia won more medals than Britain, 82 to 65, but fewer gold medals to trail Britain in the official medals table.

– Mixed efforts
Norway won two gold medals. The women won the handball tournament and Eirik Verås Larsen became the first man to cross the finish line in the men’s K1 1000 meter rowing event. In addition, Bartosz Piasecki won Norwegian silver in fencing (corridor) and Alexander Kristoff won bronze in road cycling.

Thus, four medals became Norway’s tally. This number is below the Olympic Summit target of 5-7 medals. This is also the weakest result Norway has had at a Summer Olympics since the Games in Los Angeles in 1984 (0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze).

Sports president Børre Rognlien on Sunday made no secret that Norwegian sport has to work hard ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

– We have to do it so we can perform better than this time. Competition is getting tougher. Norway’s efforts (in London) were mixed. “Athletes who we expected to be in contention for medals did not produce results,” Rognlien told NTB.

14th place
As one of the richest countries in the world, there should be no shortage of available resources. However, in relative terms, perhaps a country with a poor population like Norway should not feel disappointed, even though the country is only ranked 35th on the official medal list.

An unofficial medal review, which shows the number of gold medals distributed to residents of each country, shows that Norway was the 14th best country at the London Olympics with 0.0000003977 gold per resident.

The best is tiny Grenada, which has a population of just 103,238. Thanks to Kirani James’ gold in the men’s 400m, Grenada became the top country with 0.0000096864 gold per capita. This figure is 3.4 times better than the number two country on the list, namely the Bahamas (353,658 people).

What about the US and China?

The United States ranked 28th and China ranked 47th in this review. Norway earned nearly three times as many gold medals per capita as the United States, specifically 2.7 times more, and 14 times more than China, which earned 0.0000000282 gold per capita.

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In terms of the number of medals – not only gold, but also silver and bronze – Grenada is still at the top. Here, Jamaica, with a population of 2.7 million, is in second place after winning four gold, four silver and four bronze medals in London.

Here, Norway is ranked 29th, the United States is ranked 49th, and China is ranked 69th.

Denmark actually moves up to tenth place here. Our friends to the south took four golds, eight silvers and six bronzes in London, spread across five disciplines.

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