South Korea vs Taiwan: 7x More Olympic Medals 🇰🇷🇹🇼
South Korea and Taiwan at the Summer Olympics: all Olympic medals won so far, 1956-2024.
South Korea: 320 medals (109 gold) at the Summer Olympics · first medal 1948 · first gold 1976 · Paris 2024: 32 medals (13 gold)
Taiwan: 43 medals (9 gold) at the Summer Olympics · first medal 1960 · first gold 2004 · Paris 2024: 7 medals (2 gold)
What the number means: 500 medals = 500 times an athlete or team from that country finished in the top 3 of an Olympic event, all Games added up.
Why it matters: Olympic medals depend on money for sport, coaching and facilities, a country's size, and traditions - some countries win almost everything in one sport.
Terms used:
- Olympic medal = a top-3 finish in one event: gold (1st), silver (2nd), bronze (3rd). A team event counts as ONE medal for the country, however many athletes are in the team.
- All medals so far = every medal the country has won at the Games up to that year, added up.
- Re-allocated medals = medals taken back after a doping case and given to the next athletes; all counts here are after these changes.
Data: Olympedia - the OlyMADMen Olympic database (olympedia.org), medal winners of every event of every Summer (1896-2024) and Winter (1924-2026) Olympic Games, after all re-allocations of stripped medals; art competitions not counted; checked against the official IOC medal tables (olympics.com).
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