More than India, two Mark Spitzs and three Usain Bolts: Michael Phelps medal haul by the numbers

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Michael Phelps, sports writers have calculated, has more career medals than 56 countries. He has more medals than the 1.3 billion people of India. He has so many medals that if he wore them all at once it could injure his neck.

But if the point hasn’t yet been driven home how superhuman it is to win 26 medals[27 medals counting today], here’s some more numbers on how Phelps lines up with other Olympic medal counts throughout history.


Number of Persons
Phelps: 1
India: 1,310,000,000

Number of Olympics taken part in
Phelps: 5
India: 33

Number of Olympic medals
Phelps: 27
India: 26

Number of Olympic Gold Medals
Phelps: 22
India: 9


Phelps has spent at least 4.5 hours of his life in Olympic medal ceremonies
In non-team events, it takes about 10 minutes to corral winner onto the podium, give them their medals and then play the national anthem. If all Phelps’ medal ceremonies were held back to back, there would be time to run two Olympic marathons before it was over.

Full story here- goo.gl/J9foNi

 

[Nilgiri]

You have to drag India into this like that in the atmosphere of sportsmanship and friendly world competition?

@waz

 

[waz]

Michael Phelps, sports writers have calculated, has more career medals than 56 countries. He has more medals than the 1.3 billion people of India. He has so many medals that if he wore them all at once it could injure his neck.

But if the point hasn’t yet been driven home how superhuman it is to win 26 medals[27 medals counting today], here’s some more numbers on how Phelps lines up with other Olympic medal counts throughout history.


Number of Persons
Phelps: 1
India: 1,310,000,000

Number of Olympics taken part in
Phelps: 5
India: 33

Number of Olympic medals
Phelps: 27
India: 26

Number of Olympic Gold Medals
Phelps: 22
India: 9


Phelps has spent at least 4.5 hours of his life in Olympic medal ceremonies
In non-team events, it takes about 10 minutes to corral winner onto the podium, give them their medals and then play the national anthem. If all Phelps’ medal ceremonies were held back to back, there would be time to run two Olympic marathons before it was over.

Full story here- goo.gl/J9foNi

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