With Tom Ashley’s gold medal win New Zealand now moves into second on the medals per head table. “Per-capita medals" is the table that puts medal hauls in proportion to population size. This is a very good thing for New Zealand and other countries which do not have the benefit of hundreds of millions of people to pick Olympic athletes from.
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