Poland in Summer Olympic Games: Medals Count

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Written by Jagoda Urban-Klaehn Monday, 16 August 2004 17:00

Read about medal count in Winter Olympic Games for Poles, read also about 2004 Olympic Games is Athens. The performance measured as the efficiency, amount of medals per one participant, was the worst since 1952. Some newspapers write about it as a failure or even a catastrophe of Polish sport. Poles received only ten medals - 3 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze. Four less than during Olympic Games in Sydney (2000) and seven less than in Atlanta games (1996).

Year	Place	Participants	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Medals - Total	Medals per Participant
1924	Paris	75	0	1	1	2	0.027
1928	Amsterdam	69	1	1	3	5	0.072
1932	Los Angeles	20	2	1	4	7	0,350
1936	Berlin	111	0	3	3	6	0.054
1948	London	24	0	0	1	1	0.042
1952	Helsinki	123	1	2	1	4	0.032
1956	Melbourne	64	1	4	4	9	0.140
1960	Rome	185	4	6	11	21	0.113
1964	Tokyo	138	7	6	10	23	0.167
1968	Mexico City	176	5	2	11	18	0.102
1972	Munich	288	7	5	9	21	0.073
1976	Montreal	207	7	6	13	26	0.126
1980	Moscow	306	3	14	15	32	0.104
1988*	Seul	153	2	5	9	16	0.104
1992	Barcelona	205	3	6	10	19	0.093
1996	Atlanta	164	7	5	5	17	0.104
2000	Sydney	193	6	5	3	14	0.072
2004	Athens	202	3	2	5	10	0.049

Data from Polish Newspaper Rzeczpospolita.

* Polish team together with the other Eastern Europe Soviet block teams did not participate in Olympic Games in Los Angeles (1984) in a protest against the USA team which did not participate in the earlier Olympics in Moscow (1980) because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.