Data lord _erpel on reddit took a look at World Championships medal data from 1891-2015.
(Bars show gold, silver and bronze medals for each country)
Here are World Championships medals broken down by gender.
He also looked at the most successful nation at Olympic games and worlds and came up with this. (via)
Fascinating. This combines men’s and women’s medals, I am guessing. I knew Egypt had been a power in weightlifting in the past, but I was not aware that they had even been dominant in one year. Poland also surprised me, both in 1966 and in ranking number five overall.. I imagine that it owes its number five ranking to the performance of Polish women. And China — what more can be said?
With regards to Poland, not at all actually. Polish men have been collecting medals since the later 1950s. Out of 64 WWC golds only 6 came from women.
Thanks for the info. I was not aware that Poland was that accomplished. They have quite a good “school” or tradition in weightlifting.
Could be interest a graphic including population per medal of each country.
That would make more sense if they increased the quota of athletes per country in competition according to that country’s population.