Countries with Most Olympic Medals in Gymnastics

That's tons of time. I must've typed in every European country except the Vatican and a good portion of the Asian ones as well as South America. And I still had 45 seconds left after I got them all.

This fourth place will bother him to the end of his days.

I got Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia but not Ukraine Hungary east Germany and finland

Had no idea Finland and/or Switzerland had anything to do do with this sport.

Gymnastics has always been very popular in Switzerland, especially in the first half of the 20th century (when almost all the medals were won). There is 450'000 members of the Swiss Gymnastics Federation (out of 8 mio Swiss people!), much more than football or skiing. Until the late 60s, it was a very patriotic activity and closely related to the Swiss Army.

All of Yugoslav medallists were actually Slovene, except 1/8 of the team bronze. And all Olympic medals of the first Yugoslavia (Kingdom) were in gymnastics.

Got all with 3 secs remaining

Switzerland and Finland were the only ones I missed. And I'm from Finland...

Mäkään en kokeillu Suomea. T_T

I know that the IOC does not keep an official medal count so I am curious about the source for this info.

A pity you didn't choose to keep wikipedia's much more natural order of the ranking, sorting it first by number of gold medals, then silver, then bronze.

For instance, Sweden's five golds are a much greater success than South Korea's lesser eleven medals.

@rocamorar: Actually, 9 "lesser" medals, since two of South Korea's 11 are gold. Anyway, considering this quiz is about most olympic medals and not just gold medals, I think the ranking is fine as is.

Would you believe that I got them all except the USA (which stats say was guessed buy 100%)? I'm now giving lessons in how to be a plonker.

Feeling pretty dumb right now. I read the hint about many answers being countries that no longer exist, and I got Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, but it never even occurred to me that the Soviet Union would be counted separately from Russia. And here I was wracking my brain trying to think of who could possibly have gotten that many more medals over everyone else.

When combined, the USSR+Russia tally is more than twice as much as the next highest country (US)! To be fair, some of the USSR medalists were from states that are now separate countries, but I think it still illustrates how dominant Russia and close countries were (and to a lesser extent still are) in gymnastics.

It would be fascinating to break down (I wish I had the time or attention span) how many of the medalists from the USSR were from states outside of what is currently Russia, such as Uzbekistan or Ukraine.

I mean... sure, but the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic were entities within the USSR. That's the reason why Ukraine and Belarus are considered to have joined the UN in 1945 despite not existing as countries...

It would be fascinating to break down (I wish I had the time or attention span) how many of the medalists from the USSR were from states outside of what is currently Russia, such as Uzbekistan or Ukraine.

Read that many no longer exist, tried Molvania. :D

Really interesting quiz. I must say it was a bit confusing to have Russia separate from the Soviet Union while West Germany is lumped together with unified Germany - I didn't even think of typing "Russia" after I'd seen that.

Funny to allow UK as an abbreviation for Great Britain but not GB

I read the caveat and tried Czechslovakia. Now I'll never forget the 'o'.

Now I know, why I always had to do gymnastics in school, here in Switzerland. Apparently, it's not that much of a thing elsewhere.

Got a very respectful 18/19. go me !

Had no idea the Soviet Union was so dominant in gymnastics.