New Zealand is in second place for total medals per capita after today’s medal count. New Zealand now has 15 medals at the Rio Olympics, with four gold medals, eight silver, and three bronze.
The medal tally means New Zealand is ranked only behind only Grenada the per capita ranking. Grenada has one silver medal, from a population of about 110,000.
Based on gold medals per capita, New Zealand’s four golds puts us in fifth place. The gold medals per capita table is topped by the Bahamas, with one gold medal from a population of just under 400,000.
The New Zealand medals today went to:
• Gold – to 49er sailors Blair Tuke and Peter Burling
• Silver – to 470 sailors Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie and to 49er sailors Molly Meech and Alex Maloney
• Bronze – to K1 500 paddler Lisa Carrington and shot-putter Tom Walsh.
