INFOGRAPHIC: Olympic progression at the 200m
ATHLETICS - Americans Michael Johnson and Tommie Smith were ahead of their time with their winning races in the men’s 200m sprint. Tommie Smith was about 0.4 seconds faster than one would expect in that time. Michael Johnson about 0.5 seconds. Robert Kerr took the longest to win the gold, in 1908 it took him 22.6 seconds, compared to Usain Bolt’s world record, Kerr still had to run over 30 metres when Bolt crossed the line. Click read more to see the infographic about the 200 meter sprint.
OLYMPIC GAMES - Great Britain has won seven gold medals in the track cycling event, no other country managed to win more than one gold medal. Of all sports that have been completed this Olympic Games, no country has won more than these 7 gold medals of Team GBR in track cycling. The Britons also were the best in the rowing events with 4 gold medals. Here is an infographic on all completed sports and the countries that won the most gold medals in that sport.
OLYMPIC GAMES - China still leads the medal table, mostly due to the medals won by men. Looking at women only, the United States would lead the board. Germany and Great Britain are the only countries with multiple gold medals on mixed & open events. Here is in an infographic with all medals and their winners in the first 11 days of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Click on the graph to enable its interactive features.
OLYMPIC GAMES - The small Caribbean island of Granada is winning on average the most gold medals of all countries in the world, at least based on population. Kirani James claimed the nation’s only gold medal this Olympic Games, but due to a population of just over 100,000 inhabitants, it means the country on average wins more than nine gold medals per million inhabitants while the leaders in the medal table, China, win 0.02 gold medals for every million Chinese inhabitants. Click on the graph to enable its interactive features.
ATHLETICS - Vikas Gowda of India has qualified for the men’s Discus Throw event in first place. If he manages to hold on to this place in the finals, he can win the first (gold) medal for India in athletics. India has won a total of nine gold medals, eight of which were won in the men’s hockey tournament. The only non-hockey gold was in 2008, when Abhinav Bindra won the 10m Air Rifle Shooting event. Click on the graph to enable the interactive features of this infographic about India’s medal at the Olympic Summer Games.
SWIMMING - “There are plenty of fish in the sea”, and there are plenty of American swimmers in the Olympic pool. After 7 days and 28 swimming events, the US swimming team didn’t miss out on a single final. Out of those 28 events, there were just four in which they did not win a medal. Meanwhile, host country Great Britain has won only three medals in swimming after having been in 18 of the 28 finals. Click Read More and then click on the graph to enable its interactive features.
OLYMPIC GAMES - There are 10 countries for which all medals in the first week have been won by women and sixteen in which it were only the men. Poland is the only country where exactly 50% of the medals have been won by each gender. Click on the graph to enable its interactive features.
OLYMPIC GAMES - After the first week, there are five countries that have won a medal every day: Australia, China, Japan, Korea and the United States. Two of them (China and the USA) have even won a gold medal every day. Click ‘read more’ to see an infographic on how many days in a row a country won a medal. Click on the graph to enable its interactive features.
ATHLETICS - The United States are not only strong in athletics, the dominance of the participants representing the star-spangled banner is incredible. The USA has won almost a quarter of all athletics medals (738 on a grand total of 2,660). Click Read More to see Infographic and click on picture to enable interactive features.
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