Maps Mania: The Olympic Medals Map


world map showing birthplaces of Olympic medal winners

Up to now seven days you have virtually undoubtedly seen quite a few tables of Olympic medal winners. Now it’s time to view the map.

Giorgio Comai creates interactive maps of Olympic Medal winners primarily based on which NUTS area they have been born in. This implies that you would be able to look previous the normal nation led rankings utilized in most Olympic medal tables to discover the medals gained by totally different areas. Alternatively you’ll be able to simply use the map to find which Olympic medal winner was born closest to your tackle.

The 2024 Olympic Medalists Map is plotting the birthplaces of the Paris Olympic medal winners as the information turns into out there on Wikipedia. On viewing the map my first thought was ‘Oh, it is a inhabitants density map’ however there are clearly some international locations with excessive inhabitants densities (eg India) which do not have many medal winners. So my second thought was that the Olympics medal map extra carefully resembles a map of world inequality.

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Giorgio Comai’s Github web page, Olympics medalists, not by nation, however by NUTS area, has hyperlinks to birthplace maps of Olympic medal winners for each Olympics since 1948. The web page additionally consists of hyperlinks to the Wikipedia lists of all of the medal winners in every Olympics since 1896 (the supply knowledge utilized in Giorgio’s maps).



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