Update with Final Yorkshire Medals Table – Sunday 12th August
Well the final results of all the Olympic events are in and the Yorkshire Olympians have done very well indeed with a total of 11 medals comprising a magnificent 7 gold medals, 2 silver and 2 bronze. Australia managed to creep above Yorkshire however, with more silver medals, but Yorkshire as a county still fared better than many a proud sporting nation including sprint champions Jamaica, Spain, Brazil, South Africa and well, 67 other Nations. So well done to Luke Campbell, Nicola Adams, Lizzie Armistead, Jonathan and Alastair Brownlee, Ed Clancy, Kath Copeland, Jessica Ennis, Tom Ransley, Andrew Triggs-Hodge and Nicola Wilson. Yorkshire heroes every one of them.
The main effect of treating Yorkshire as a separate entity however, is to move the Rest of Great Britain down from 3rd position in the medals table, to fourth behind the Russian Federation.
Final Yorkshire Medals Table
Of course there is always another way of looking at it, so here is the Final Olympics Medal Table also without a unified GB team, but rather than seperating out constituents, the entire EU is presented as one entry, which makes the European Union the winner of the 2012 Olympic Games with 92 gold, 104 silver, 110 bronze medals making a total of 306 medals in all, way above both the United States and China.
European Union Medals Table
– end of update for final Yorkshire medals table
update from Saturday 11th:
7 Gold medals for Yorkshire
Luke Campbell’s victory in the boxing final brings the grand total of Yorkshire gold medals to a magnificent SEVEN. With two silver medals, this leaves Yorkshire in 11th position after Italy and Australia who have 6 and 16 silver medals respectively, and are both also on 7 golds.
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Original post from 5th August plus the full list of Yorkshire Olympians now follows:
Team GB are doing great of course, nothing should detract from that but it’s very interesting indeed to take a look at Yorkshire’s position in the Olympic Medal Table this morning, Sunday 5th August 2012, nearly half way through the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Yorkshire in the Olympic Medal Table 5/8/2012
updated 7/8/2012 below:
updated Yorkshire Medals Table
The position of Yorkshire updated for the start of Tuesday 7th August is now a very respectable 10th in the overal Olympics Medals Tabel with 4 Golds, 2 Silver and 4 Bronze making 10 medals altogether and high hopes of more to come as the Yorkshire boxers and cyclists go into the finals today with high hopes of improving the position.
Doctors have identified a new malady dubbed ‘Australian Thumb’ thought to be caused by repeatedly scrolling down to see the country’s tally in the medals table.
end of update
What a day we had yesterday, Olympic Super Saturday when Jessica Ennis – the face of London 2012 – won the Women’s Heptathlon Gold for Yorkshire!
Then there’s Ed Clancy cycling for an individual Yorkshire Gold in the first Omnium competition where he is currently placed in a good position at 4th, after having helped the Yorkshire men’s cycling team to win several medals already. He already won a Gold medal as a team member in the 4kilometre
Nicola Wilson from Northallerton, Yorkshire has already returned home with her silver medal won with her horse Opposition Buzz in the team eventing at the Olympic equestrian competition.
It all totals up to a magnificent placement of Yorkshire standing at 7th in the Olympic medal table, no mean achievement as stated by Nasser Hussein in the cricket commentary earlier.
Here’s the full list of Yorkshire Olympians competing at London 2012:
Name Event Yorkshire Provenance Medals
NICOLA ADAMS Boxing Leeds GOLD
First ever women’s boxing Olympic gold medalist, Nicola attributes the success of Yorkshire in the olympics to the puddings.
LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD Road Cycling, Otley SILVER
women’s road race
SARAH BARROW Diving, Leeds
ALICIA BLAGG Synchronised Diving Wakefield
RACHEL BRAGG Volleyball, York
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Triathlon, Leeds GOLD
JONATHAN BROWNLEE Triathlon, Leeds BRONZE
RICHARD BUCK 4x400m Relay born York
LUKE CAMPBELL Boxing, Hull GOLD!!!
EDWARD CLANCY Cycling Track, Huddersfield born GOLD + BRONZE
cycling’s men’s team pursuit + Omnium
KATHERINE COPELAND Rowing, Stokesley GOLD
women’s lightweight double sculls
PAUL DRINKHALL Table Tennis, Loftus, Cleveland
JESSICA ENNIS Athletics, Sheffield GOLD
Heptathlon
ELEANOR FAULKNER Swimming, Sheffield
DEBBIE FLOOD Rowing, Harrogate born
REBECCA GALLANTREE Diving, City of Leeds Club
PAUL GOODISON Sailing, Rotherham born
JOANNE JACKSON Swimming, Northallerton born
JACK LAUGHER Diving, Ripon
FRAN LEIGHTON Water Polo Rotherham
BARRY MIDDLETON Hocky Captain Doncaster
AMY OLIVER Archery, Mexborough
KIERAN O’MALLEY Volleyball Halifax
JOANNA PARKER Table Tennis, Rotherham
BEN PIPES Volleyball, Hull
TOM RANSLEY Rowing, York City Rowing Club BRONZE
men’s eights
NICK ROBINSON-BAKER Diving, Sheffield
JOSEPH ROEBUCK Swimming, Rotherham born
HUSAYN ROSOWSKY Fencing, Sheffield born
ADAM SCHOLEFIELD Water Polo Leeds
ELIZABETH SIMMONDS Swimming, Beverley born
HANNAH STARLING Diving, Leeds
SARAH STEVENSON Taekwondo, Doncaster born
CHRIS TOMLINSON Athletics, Middlesbrough
ANDREW TRIGGS-HODGE Rowing Hebden GOLD
coxless four
REBECCA TURNER Swimming, Rotherham
MATTHEW WELLS Rowing, Bradford born
JOHN WHITTAKER horse jumping Huddersfield
AIMEE WILLMOTT Swimming, Middlesborough born
ALASTAIR WILSON Hockey Sheffield
NICOLA WILSON Equestrian Eventing, Northallerton SILVER
Yorkshire Olympic Flag
Yorkshire Gold, Silver and Bronze medals results have been added as they occur, with the event details for each Yorkshire athlete competitor.
Just some of Yorkshire’s Gold, Silver and Bronze Olympic Medals from London 2012
Oh, and by the way – The Olympic Cauldron was built in Tockwith, North Yorkshire all 16 tons and 204 copper petals of it, one for each of the other countries taking part in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Ermm… four gold medals on the list (one of which one isn’t even decided yet) and you’ve got Yorkshire having five in the table.
Surely the one Gold medal that hasn’t been decided yet – Ed Clancy for the Omnium cycle event – will make six?
I still only see four in the list currently.
Anyway, that’s less relevant than the fact that you’re counting individual medals for Yorkshire, and event medals for everyone else. Totally meaningless comparison. If you want this to mean anything at all, a better way to calculate it would be:
Jessica Ennis – 1 Gold
Katherine Copeland – 0.5 Gold (1 member of a double)
Edward Clancy – 0.25 Gold (1 member of a team of four)
For a total of 1.75 golds, putting you in 19th place.
Individuals do get medals as well as teams. And even 19th, which is a terrible misundercalculation in my book, would still be way ahead of California, New South Wales, Toronto and Chongqing Province!
my only question – if Yorkshire have 5 how can GB have 14 – medals shouldn’t appear twice in the table?
..surely th Yorkshire medals should be subtracted from the GB total….if so we are above the rest of GB…
3 from 15 means GB have 12 and Yorkshire have 3 (only just more than Australia). And that’s if you take off a whole medal for the cycling gold that Clancy won, despite the fact that 3 of the 4 cyclists are not from Yorkshire. And a whole gold for Copeland despite her being only half of a winning team.
There’s also Fran Leighton (Rotherham) and Adam Scholefield (Leeds) who play water polo
Thanks very much AE for supplying two vital missing pieces to the jigsaw here. The Yorkshire Medal Table just needs a few more bits of data about the rest of the Silver and Bronze medal winners from Yorkshire now, I think.
Ffs, people from Yorkshire really can’t do maths, can they?
Now, now. You’ve heard of logarithms? – invented by a Yorkshireman, Henry Briggs.
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I’m aware that individuals get medals as well as teams, obviously. My point is that your calculation to place Yorkshire 7th is hopelessly inaccurate, since it calculates Yorkshire on the basis of individual medals, and everybody else on the basis of event medals. You’re not comparing like with like, so it’s meaningless.
But yes, if you did compare like with like, and use the most tenuous links to define as many athletes as possible as being from Yorkshire, then ‘Yorkshire’ might beat some countries. Well done.
Sadly, we can scratch another one of those medals off the list – Clancy *only* won a bronze in the Omnium. Still better than Australia though…
Great to see all the hard work we did compiling the Yorkshire Olympians list being put to good use! Always good to get a link back http://www.yorkshireridings.org/news/2012/07/support-all-our-yorkshire-olympians.html
Who do we think are the best hopes for further additions to the Yorkshire medal table?
No extra pressure on Alastair and Johnathan, but The Leeds based Brownlee Brothers are hopefuls in the men’s cycling triathlon in Hyde Park on Tuesday August 7th.
Who else?
I think some people are taking this a bit too seriously (Aussies making whine from sour grapes again?) Of course Yorkshire is a proud part of GB and is a full part of team GB’s success, send this table to your Aussie mates and watch them go green & gold with envy.
If they complain simply point out that the first Pom in oz was captain Cook who was a Yorkshireman, and an East Yorkshireman at that, and just sit back and enjoy the fun.
Yes, Hockey captain Barry Middleton is from Doncaster, also on the men’s hockey team is Alastair Wilson from Sheffield.
Is their a special reason why the Yorkshire Olympic Flag is an upside down Yorkshire flag?. I understood the standard Yorkshire flag is normally two leafs and a petal to the top.
An Antipodean anomoly. I’d like to have claimed it was first flown in Sydney 2008, but in truth it’s more to do with Forward planning. The Yorkshire Olympic Flag is optimised for the games in Rio de Janiro, 2016
The lack of irony in some of these responses are worrying.
No no Sarah, I really think Orbit Tower should be out there checking birth certificates before making such proposterous claims with such far reaching consequences.
Is Olympic Trolling an individual or team event?
ALICIA BLAGG Diving Wakefield ?????????????
love the pun, whine from sour grapes
Whitaker won gold in the team horsejumping equestrian malarkey. He’s from Huddersfield.
Thanks for mentioning John Whitaker, just trying to confirm medal….
Capn Cook was from NORTH riding of Yorkshire, and was not the first pom in Oz (William Dampier from Zomerzet was).
The Yorkshire flag dates from the 1960′s and had nothing to do with the Olympics, designed for Yorkshire Ridings society.
Introduce whippet racing as an Olympic sport. We’d win that as well!
As for the Yorkshire flag being upside down, thats the way the East Riding fly it.
North South East and West Ridings of Yorkshire, you can never please them all!