Writing Feedback / IELTS WRITNG 1: The total number of Olympic medals won by twelve different countries. [3]

olimpic achievements by states

The bar chart compares the number of medals that twelve countries have won at the Olympic Games in total.

It is noticeable that the USA by far has won the most medals. It is also clear that the proportion of gold, silver and bronze medals won tend to be quite similar for all countries.

Among twelve countries, the USA has a dramatical number of medals, around 2300 medals, including approximately 900 gold medals, over 650 silver medals, and almost 650 bronze medals. By constrast, Japan has the fewest medals, in which, the gold medals accounts for nearly a half of 350 medals won, and the figures for silver and bronze medals are the same at 90 medals.

Besides the USA, Soviet Union is the only different country which has more than 1000 medals, more or less 400, 300, and 300 medals for gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. Deviding these countries into two parts, the USA, Soviet Union, the UK, France, Germany, and Italy are six nations winning more than 500 medals. The rest of twelve countries have from 350 to 500 total number of medals won.

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