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Australia’s Hold Medal Table Lead, Russians & Americans Nipping

The Americans received a boost to their medal standings on Friday when Gunnar Bentz gave them their second gold medal of the meet, but the Australians still sit atop it with 9 total gold medals.

With still 33 medals, at least, to be awarded on the final day Saturday, things are wide open. The Australians have the boys’ 50 free, where Mack Horton seems to be about a lock for gold, but the Americans’ medal hopes are greater in the boys’ 200 IM and the boys’ 200 backstroke.

Don’t sleep on the Russians, either. With two more relays, where the Russians have been so good, and big hopes in a lot of relays, on paper, they may actually come out on top of this medal standing.

Note that the rankings are done based on golds, then silvers to break ties, then bronzes to break ties, and the Americans hae the most silver medals (7) so far.

The Australians are nipping at the heels of the Americans in the points standings, which are a better indicator of depth than the medals tables are. Expect Team USA to hold that, as there’s a few holes in Australia’s lineup on Saturday. 33 teams have scored so far at the meet, meaning putting a swimmer into the top 16, which is great to see.

See the full day 5 finals recap here.

MEN Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL
Australia 6 1 0 7
Russia 3 4 3 10
USA 2 1 4 7
Great Britain 1 2 0 3
Japan 1 0 4 5
Greece 1 0 1 2
Czech Republic 0 1 1 2
Trinidad & Tobago 0 1 0 1
Brazil 0 1 0 1
Lithuania 0 1 0 1
Hungary 0 1 0 1
Germany 0 1 0 1
Poland 0 0 1 1
Italy 0 0 1 1
         
WOMEN Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL
USA 5 5 4 14
Russia 3 1 2 6
Lithuania 3 1 0 4
Australia 2 4 1 7
Hong Kong 1 0 0 1
Great Britain 0 1 2 3
Ukraine 0 1 1 2
Italy 0 1 1 2
Hungary 0 1 0 1
Canada 0 0 2 2
Japan 0 0 1 1
Czech Republic 0 0 1 1
         
MIXED Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL
Russia 1 0 1 2
Australia 1 0 0 1
USA 0 1 1 2
Lithuania 0 1 0 1
         
TOTAL Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL
Australia 9 5 1 15
USA 7 7 9 23
Russia 7 5 6 18
Lithuania 3 3 0 6
Great Britain 1 2 0 3
Japan 1 0 5 6
Greece 1 0 1 2
Hong Kong 1 0 0 1
Hungary 0 2 0 2
Italy 0 1 2 3
Czech Republic 0 1 1 2
Ukraine 0 1 1 2
Brazil 0 1 0 1
Canada 0 0 2 2
Poland 0 0 1 1

    Team Rankings – Through Event 35                       

                              Women – Team Scores                             
            Place Team                                            Points
       ===================================================================
                1 United States of America           USA             413 
                2 Australia                          AUS             280 
                3 Russia                             RUS             215 
                4 Canada                             CAN             209.5
                5 Japan                              JPN             135.5
                6 Italy                              ITA             127.5
                7 Great Britain                      GBR             125.5
                8 Slovenia                           SLO              98 
                9 Lithuania                          LTU              92 
               10 Ukraine                            UKR              83 
               11 Brazil                             BRA              79.5
               12 Hungary                            HUN              77 
               13 Germany                            GER              61 
               13 Mexico                             MEX              61 
               15 Hong Kong                          HKG              50 
               16 South Africa                       RSA              42 
               17 France                             FRA              41 
               18 New Zealand                        NZL              28.5
               19 Czech Republic                     CZE              25 
               20 Sweden                             SWE              19 
               21 Portugal                           POR              15 
               22 Austria                            AUT              10 
               23 Turkey                             TUR               9 
               24 Poland                             POL               8 
               25 Slovakia                           SVK               6 
               26 China                              CHN               4 
               27 Moldova                            MDA               2 
               27 Serbia                             SRB               2 
               29 Romania                            ROU               1 
               29 Bahamas                            BAH               1 

                               Men – Team Scores                              
            Place Team                                            Points
       ===================================================================
                1 United States of America           USA             298 
                2 Russia                             RUS             263.5
                3 Australia                          AUS             228 
                4 Brazil                             BRA             174.5
                5 Japan                              JPN             172 
                6 Canada                             CAN             148 
                7 Great Britain                      GBR             127 
                8 Poland                             POL             116 
                9 Italy                              ITA             103 
               10 Germany                            GER              63.5
               11 South Africa                       RSA              62.5
               12 Lithuania                          LTU              55 
               13 Trinidad & Tobago                  TRI              54 
               14 Greece                             GRE              51.5
               15 Hungary                            HUN              32 
               16 Czech Republic                     CZE              31 
               17 France                             FRA              29 
               18 Egypt                              EGY              27 
               19 Kazakhstan                         KAZ              26 
               20 Venezuela                          VEN              25 
               21 Mexico                             MEX              17 
               21 Austria                            AUT              17 
               23 Ukraine                            UKR              11 
               24 Suriname                           SUR              10 
               25 New Zealand                        NZL               6 
               26 Bulgaria                           BUL               5.5
               27 Portugal                           POR               5 
               28 Jamaica                            JAM               4 
               29 Romania                            ROU               3 
               29 Croatia                            CRO               3 
               29 Argentina                          ARG               3 
               29 Sweden                             SWE               3 
               33 Uzbekistan                         UZB               1

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tom
11 years ago

SWIMFANFINLAND–Exactly what I was thinking about the medal table. The medals can be interpreted in different ways: Would not the most medals obtained be the bottom line goal? The more medals a country achieves, the more success that country has had. With the line of thinking that the most golds is the most important accomplishment: what if the gold medals are achieved by essentially the same person? For example: How many golds could Meilutyte have won for Lithuania? (6?) If that would have happened, then would her country be the #1 on the women’s board? Food for thought, IMO it is the most medals that is the important category to consider. Then, team points. It is the TEAM approach that… Read more »

SwimFanFinland
Reply to  tom
11 years ago

Yep,

I’d go even further and use only team scores mentioned above when evaluating the success of a country. We can of course argue for a correct formula for awarding points to different positions.

I’ve nothing against a medal table in the first place, but it’s misleading to draw conclusions about the performance of a country based on the order of the medal table.

A good example is Japan’s swimming performance at the 2012 Summer Olympics where Japanese claimed 11 medals, second most behind USA, but none of those were golds. As a result Japan ended in a 11th place in the medal table for the Olympic swimming in London.

Jg
11 years ago

I would like to give a shout to the competitors from countries in the midst of turmoil & even civil wars . Egypt has a good team & although chosen under the Morsi regime – they have girls & mixed teams. Lebanon has some fine swimmers here.

But a big hurrah to the young Syrian girls. It might be frightening to have to line up with people who are threatening to bomb you just about when you get back.

SwimFanFinland
11 years ago

Why isn’t it called a gold medal table because coountries are placed in order by golds only.

bobo gigi
11 years ago

Braden, you look a little tired after this long summer of big meets. 🙂
For Mack Horton it’s the 1500 free.
And for USA there isn’t the boys’ 200 IM. Gunnar Bentz has already won it.

I see a very big day for Russia.
Schedule.
Men’s 100 free final.
Percy for Australia vs Dressel for USA vs Sedov for Russia.

Women’s 200 breast final.
Solnceva for Ukraine

Men’s 200 back final.
Very open race

Women’s 100 fly final.
Chimrova for Russia

Men’s 1500 free final
Horton for Australia

Women’s 50 free final.
Nasretdinova for Russia or Meilutyte for Lithuania

Men’s 200 fly final.
Seliskar for USA vs Japanese swimmers… Read more »

About Braden Keith

Braden Keith

Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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