Day 7: NZ third in alternative Commonwealth Games medal table

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Reigning Olympic champion Kirani James triumphed at London 2012 in the 400m and the 21-year-old excelled once again on his return to British shores as he created history for the Caribbean island, winning their maiden gold medal on Day 7 of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Meanwhile in the weightlifting, David Katoatau claimed Kiribati's first ever Commonwealth medal in taking the men's 105kg crown.

Valerie Adams added another gold to NZ's tally but with Grenada and Kiribati both clocking only around 100,000 people total population, their countries' maiden golds saw them leap ahead to the top of the Golds per Capita tally.

Number of Gold Medals per Capita - day seven

1 Kiribati: 1 gold, population 100,786 (9.92 golds per million people)

2 Grenada: 1 gold, population 105,483 (9.48 golds per million people)

3 NEW ZEALAND: 11 golds, population 4.433m (2.71 golds per million people)

4 Scotland: 13 golds, population 5.254m (2.47 golds per million people)

5 Jamaica: 5 golds, population 2.712m (1.84 golds per million people)

6 Cyprus: 2 golds, population 1.129m  

7 Australia: 35 golds, population 22.68m 

8 Wales: 4 golds, population 3.006m 

9 Singapore: 4 golds, population 5.312m

10 England: 38 golds, population 56.1m 

11 Canada: 22 golds, population 33.47m 

12  South Africa: 9 golds, population 51.19m

13 PNG: 1 gold, population 7.167m

12  Kenya: 5 golds, population 43.18m

13 Malaysia: 3 golds, population 29.24m

14 Cameroon: 1 gold, population 21.7m

15  Nigeria: 6 golds, population 168.8m

16  India: 10 golds, population 1.210bn

=17  Trinidad & Tobago, Mozambique, Fiji, Isle of Man, Samoa, Bahamas, Mauritius, Northern Ireland, Namibia, Cameroon, Zambia, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Uganda, Bangladesh, Pakistan: 0 golds.

(Population numbers from Wikipedia)

 

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