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New Zealand in second place at Rio in medals per capita
New Zealand in second place at Rio in medals per capita ranking – Media advisory
19 August 2016
New Zealand now has 15 medals at the Rio Olympics, putting us in second place for total medals per capita.
New Zealand now has four gold medals, eight silver, and three bronze.
That leaves New Zealand behind only Grenada in our total medals per capita ranking. Grenada has one silver medal, from a population of about 110,000.
Based on gold medals per capita, New Zealand’s four golds puts us in fifth place. The gold medals per capita table is topped by the Bahamas, with one gold medal from a population of just under 400,000.
The New Zealand medals
today went to:
• Gold – to 49er sailors Blair Tuke
and Peter Burling
• Silver – to 470 sailors Jo Aleh
and Polly Powrie and to 49er sailors Molly Meech and Alex
Maloney
• Bronze – to K1 500 paddler Lisa Carrington
and shot-putter Tom
Walsh.
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