Data Crunch #5.22
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Note: I am using a mathematical ranking system to rank national programs that gives zero weight to team medals. This isn’t so much a measure of what programs have had the most success in the team competition, but have had the most success in producing star gymnasts/winning medals in individual events.

To explain how the points system works: Only individual medals from the World Championships and Olympics are counted. A gold is worth three points, silver is worth two points, and bronze is worth one point. If there is a tie, both gymnasts get the full point total, even in cases where gymnasts from the same nation shared a medal. There is also one technical issue I want to clear up. The following gymnasts have multiple nationalities:

Oksana Chusovitina: (Soviet Union, Germany, and Uzbekistan)
Annia Hatch: (Cuba and United States)
Tatiana Lysenko: (Soviet Union and Ukraine)

I awarded each gymnast their full medal total and that full medal total to each country. This means Cuba gets points for the medal Annia Hatch won while competing for the United States. In the case of Ukraine, the United States, and the Soviet Union, this impacted their point totals, but didn’t change their ranking.

In the case of Cuba, Germany, and Uzbekistan, these extra points did help them pass other nations. So these three nations are in the data twice. One with the full point totals of all their gymnasts, one where they are “adjusted” having medals won by a gymnast while she represented another country removed. The results are below.

Nation	Points
Soviet Union	402
United States	324
Romania	287
Russia	162
China	149
Czechoslovakia	90
East Germany	84
Hungary	45
Ukraine	34
Japan	31
Germany	29
Brazil	21
United Kingdom	21
Uzbekistan	20
Poland	17
North Korea	16
Italy	15
Germany (Adjusted)	14
Belgium	11
Netherlands	10
Sweden	10
Canada	9
France	9
Uzbekistan (Adjusted)	9
Australia	8
Bulgaria	6
Austria	6
Belarus	6
Spain	5
Switzerland	4
Cuba	3
Yugoslavia	2
Cuba (Adjusted)	1
Mexico	1
South Korea	1
Vietnam	1

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