Medal Athens 2004 Olympic Games

The year 2004 will be remembered for the Olympic Games returned to their birthplace, Greece, about 17 successful days in which, as always, were all world problems aside in pursuit of sportsmanship of athletes.

As usual, the United States was the main protagonist with 102 medals, 36 of which were gold, 39 silver and 27 bronze. China was the second best, with 32 gold medals, 17 silver and 14 bronze for a total of 63 medals.

Russia won nearly 30 medals more than the Chinese, but we know that in no Medalleros ranks countries by number of medals won, but by the number of golds, and in case of a tie, the number of silvers, and if back into a tie, the number of bronzes. That is, a country with only one gold medal will have better classification with 40 medals, one silver and 30 bronze.

So, Russia won 92 medals, but only 27 gold. The rest were 27 silver and 38 bronze. Something happened to Germany, which with 49 medals could not exceed 16 gold in Japan and the country was behind Japan. Australia was fourth with 49 medals, 17 of which were gold.

One case with further optimization of medals was that of Norway, with only 6 medals beat countries like the Netherlands with 22 and Spain with 19. And the Norwegians were made with 5 gold medals and 1 bronze.

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