medal table

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medal table (plural medal tables)

  1. A visual depiction or ranking of the number of medals won by certain teams at a multi-event competition, especially the Olympic Games.
    • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
      And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.

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