There are no prizes for knowing that the US has won more Olympic medals than any other country since the first modern summer games were held in 1896.

 

自1896年第一届现代夏季奥运会举办以来，美国队获得的奖牌总数比其他国家都要多。这是人尽皆知的事实。
 

 

Kudos¹ is due², however, to those who are able to name Finland as having won the most medals per Games contested relative to the country's population size.

 

To work out how well each country fared, we took the number of medals won by each - in Finland's case 303 - and divided it by the number of summer Olympics competed in to get the average number of medals won. We then calculated³ the medal haul⁴ against each country's 2015 population.

 

By this measure the Olympic podium would see Finland - population 5.5 million - receive the gold medal, Estonia the silver and the Bahamas the bronze⁵.

 

Finland's record is still driven by its early successes. In the five Olympic Games held between Stockholm 1912 and Los Angeles 1932, the country won 148 medals, averaging almost 30 per Games.

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