Proud to be from Yorkshire

Date: 16 August 2012 13:47:31

YORKSHIRE V SCOTLAND

If Yorkshire were a country it would be 12th on the Olympic table. So says a Guardian blog from last Monday, Similar claims have been made for Scotland. Both areas have about the same population, at a little over 5 million inhabitants. Lets see how they stand up.

Yorkshire: 7 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze Scotland: 7 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze

Looks like Scotland beat us into 12th place, with Yorkshire a still respectable 13th. But is that correct? The figures are not of evens won, but medalists. 2 of the Scottish bronze medals were from members of the same team. The number of individual medals looks like this:

Yorkshire: 4Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze Scotland: 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 0 Bronze

In adition they contributed to these team medals:

Yorkshire: 3 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Scotland: 5 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to put the Scots down. (History shows that the English have tried to do this several times, and never succeeded.) I think that the Scotts have done very well, as I will demonstrate later. But first I need to break the results down. Where someone has been in a team of four, I am counting their contribution as one quarter of a medal.

YORKSHIRE

Gold

Nicola Adams - Boxing: Women's Flyweight Alistair Brownlee - Men's Triathlon Luke Campbell - Boxing: Men's Bantamweight Jessica Ennis - Athletics: Heptathlon Katherine Copeland - Rowing: Women's Lightweight Double skull - Team of 2 - 0.5 Ed Clancy - Cycling: Men's Team Pursuit - Team of 4 - 0.25 Andy Triggs-Hodge - Rowing: Men's Four - Team of 4 - 0.25

Silver

Lizzie Armitstead - Women’s Road Race Nicola Wilson - Equestrian - Team of 5 - 0.2

Bronze

Jonathan Brownlee - Men's Triathlon Ed Clancy - Omnium Tom Ransley - Men's Eight - Team of 9 - 0.11

SCOTLAND

Gold

Andy Murray, Tennis, Mens' Singles Chris Hoy, Gold, Team Sprint. Team of 3 - 0.33 Chris Hoy, Gold, Cycling, Keirin Heather Stanning, Gold, Rowing, Coxless Pair Team of 2 - 0.5 Katherine Grainger, Gold, Rowing, Double Sculls Team of 2 - 0.5 Scott Brash, Gold, Equestrian, Team Jumping Team of 5 - 0.2 Timothy Baillie, Gold, Canoeing Slalom, C-2 team 0.5

Silver

Andy Murray, Silver, Tennis, mixed doubles - team of 2 0.5 David Florence, Silver, Canoeing Slalom, C-2 team of 2 - 0.5 Luke Patience, Silver, Sailing, Mens 470- team od 2 - 0.5 Michael Jamieson, Silver, Swimming, 200m Breaststroke

Bronze

Daniel Purvis, Bronze, Gymnastics, Team All-round - team of 5 - 0.2 Laura Bartlett, Bronze, Field Hockey, and Emily Maguire, Bronze, Field Hockey 2 out of team of 11 - 0.18

Yorkshire: 5 Gold - 1.2 Silver - 2.11 Bronze Scotland: 4.03 Gold 2.5 Silver 0.38 Bronze

With these adjusted figures, both Scotland and Yorkshire have about one 12th of the population of the UK. If these results could have been replicated across the UK we'd be top of the medal table.

Yorkshire result x 12

60 Gold, 14.4Silver, 25.33 Bronze

Scotland result x 12

48.36 Gold, 30 Silver 4.56 Bronze

Well done to both. (Now I'd better shut up about the number of medals won for the size of the population before anyone from Sark reads this.)