European Athletics Quiz Answers


With the European Athletics Championship just finished in Berlin, the quiz this week was to name the top ten countries in the all-time medal table from 1934 to 2016.

Clearly the totals have changed over the last week, with GB closing the gap on the Soviet Union, but not quite (yet) taking top spot. But as of 2016 the table is

1  Soviet Union 121 109 103 333
2  Great Britain 111 82 94 287
3  Germany 93 95 105 293
4  East Germany 90 83 65 238
5  France 66 61 56 183
6  Russia 53 53 60 166
7  Poland 47 47 59 153
8  Italy 40 45 42 127
9  Finland 33 28 39 100
10  Sweden 28 40 39 107

 

Germany inherited West Germany's medals, but not East Germany's. Russia did not inherit the Soviet Union's.

Oddly, of these ten countries, only Germany, Italy, Finland and Sweden have held a full championship - France held a men-only event in 1938, but will get the championship in 2020.

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