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Dark Silvergun posted...

I wonder how many of each medal are created by the end of the competition?

Some sports are team sports, meaning a large amount of medals are issued for winning the competition. [Such as soccer, basketball and etc.]

Fun question.

There's around 13,000 athletes across all disciplines (50 total). If every discipline had only one category and 3 individual winners, the minimum would be 150 medals. Multiply them by Male and Female competitors, it's 300. But most of the disciplines have multiple categories, somewhat around, say, 6-10 average; I think Swimming has the most (35), so the average can wildly vary. Lastly, around half of them are individual, while the other half is comprised by teams of 2, 3, 4, sometimes 6, a few of them 7/8, and lastly a few big teams of around 11.

Ooph...

I'm gonna make a wild guess and say:

350=150 (individual medals)
1502=300 (individual male & female)
3006=1,800 (total individual medals across all disciplines, average)

(3002)1 + (3003)2 + (3004)2 + (300[7+8+11]3)1 = 4,250 (total teams medals across all disciplines, average)

1,800+4,250=6,050 (total medals)

Let's see how far off that number actually is.

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