Topic: Athletes Attending Junior Worlds, by country, and Medals Won to Date

[Rachel Crass]

Number of Athletes Attending the 2011 World Junior Championships, by Country and Gender, & Medals Won to Date
            
         
Nation   Women   Men   Total   Medals
 RUS     7   8   15   9
 THA     7   8   15   12
 TUR     7   8   15   3
 USA     7   8   15   0
 CHN     6   8   14   19
 KAZ     7   7   14   3
 MAS     6   8   14   0
 INA     7   6   13   2
 IND     7   5   12   0
 JPN     6   6   12   1
 POL     7   5   12   0
 KOR     4   6   10   1
 TPE     6   3   9   0
 IRI     0   8   8   4
 ESP     2   5   7   
 PRK     6   1   7   8
 CAN     4   2   6   
 TKM     0   6   6   2
 COL     2   3   5   
 EGY     2   2   4   
 ROU     2   2   4   
 SAM     3   1   4   
 TUN     2   2   4   
 UKR     2   2   4   
 AUS     1   2   3   
 BUL     0   3   3   
 FRA     3   0   3   
 ITA     2   1   3   
 KGZ     1   2   3   
 MDA     1   2   3   1
 NZL     0   3   3   
 ARM     1   1   2   
 AZE     0   2   2   
 DOM     1   1   2   
 ECU     0   2   2   
 LTU     0   2   2   
 NRU     1   1   2   
 PHI     1   1   2   1
 SVK     0   2   2   
 VIE     0   2   2   3
 ALB     0   1   1   3
 AUT     0   1   1   
 BLR     1   0   1   
 CHI     1   0   1   
 GBR     0   1   1   
 IRQ     0   1   1   
 KIR     0   1   1   
 LAT     0   1   1   
 MGL     1   0   1   
 PNG     0   1   1   
 SIN     0   1   1   
 SWE     0   1   1   
 TUV     0   1   1   
 TOTAL     124   157   281   

   

Interesting observations: Iran brought a full men's team but not a single female. Other countries not bringing a single woman: Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Iraq, and a smattering of smaller nations. France didn't bring any men.
 
MAS = Malaysia, home country. Their lifters are so so. Weightlifting is not very big here, but it's interesting that not even the home country "brought" a full team.

The Albanians brought exactly 1 lifter and 1 coach. Yesterday that lifter edged out the Chinese 69 for Gold. 100% win rate. Can't complain about that.

Rachel

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Seeing one of the American lifter's coaches label himself the king of American weightlifting, his pupil a prodigy and the best 56kg lifter in the nation after earning not a medal, I feel my case about the false records is making itself ever more validated. Expectations have been lowered, standards artificially reduced, and thus malinvestment is rapidly growing into large [ego-]bubbles built on quicksand. In the long run, this false stimulus will only cause disappointment when the ego meets reality. The last time I saw this in weightlifting was the premature, not erroneous, promotion and pimping of Mark Henry. It did him no good either, only created jealousy, controversy, infighting, disruption, and disappointment. The records bubble is far worse, though Mark was an exceptional athlete.

[Shaun Le Conte]

Nothing surprising about the above. 14 lifters is not quite a full team, but nearly. Maybe there was an injury, or something came up.