2014-02-18

Olympic Medals By Province

I came across this chart in Business Insider breaking down Olympic (gold) medals by states. As usual, it's left to me to do something similar for Canada. Seriously, I have endless pages of interesting sports statistics that for some reason or another can't be found on sports sites.

Not surprising, California and New York (the largest states by population) pretty much lead the way.

So how does it look for Canada I wondered?

Here's what I compiled. A couple of notes:

1) Teams (including duos) forms its own category under, simple enough, Canada. Reason being simple, teams are made up of athletes from all parts of the country and breaking them down is almost irrelevant.
2) Where possible (and logic could be applied) athletes born abroad were attributed to the province they reside or grew up in. In some cases, this was not easily determined so they fall into 'Canada' as well. For example, Lennox Lewis was born in the UK but I credited Ontario. Ethel Catherwood was born in the USA but for our purposes here, Saskatchewan was given the nod. Recent bronze medalist Jan Hurdec is Czech born lives in Alberta.
3) Winnipeg Falcons hockey gold medal included in Canada totals.
4) Lacrosse not included

Starting with the Summer Olympics. Total medals/gold medals in brackets:

Ontario: 67 (19 gold)
Quebec: 41 (9)
British Columbia 21 (4)
Alberta: 11 (2)
Saskatchewan: 9 (4)
Manitoba: 6
Nova Scotia: 5
Prince Edward Island: 1
New Brunswick: 1
Canada: 96 (19) - includes four foreign born medalists not attributed to a province.

Winter:

Quebec: 36 (13)
Ontario: 20 (5)
Manitoba: 13 (3)
Alberta: 12 (4)
British Columbia 7 (4)
SSK: 6 (2)
New Brunswick: 2
Canada: 49 (25 Gold)

Like is the case with the USA, it's not surprising the two most populated provinces - Ontario and Quebec - lead the charge.


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