Hello!

I’m back, after a week long hiatus, with more fun charts! This week I made some Olympics charts, of course.

Gymnasts

I thought it would be interesting to look at how certain characteristics of the women’s gymnastics all-around champions has changed over time, specifically age and height. In doing this, it also seemed important to note what country the gymnasts came from, which led me to making these fun charts.

First of all, for these charts I learned how to highlight a component across multiple charts. Here, I broke it up by what medal was earned, so if you hover over or touch a certain point on these charts, it’ll show you all the points of the same medal. First, I thought it was interesting that height is mostly consistent across all medal types over the years, with a few outliers. All heights ranged between 137 cm (4.5 feet) and 166 cm (5.4 feet). Age was more interesting, as ages were high in the early years, decreased by the 70s, and started increasing again in the last decade or so. Ages ranged from 14 to 36, with both extremes being a gold medal winner. As far as country goes, it is unsurprising that the Soviet Union, Romania, and the US are the big medal winners. Although the Soviet Union has nearly twice as many medals as the US, we have the most gold medals of any country.

Medals

It’s easy to find tables with the final medal counts for each country, and I did include a bar plot like that here, but I also looked at some other variables.

On the top right, I made a scatterplot for the 15 countries that had the most total medals that shows the total medal count by the number of athletes that participated in the Olympics this year. Unsurprisingly, as the number of athletes increased, so did the number of medals received. On the top left, I made a chart that shows how many medals the top 15 medalists received this year. Then on the bottom, I have a chart showing the total number of medals the top 15 countries received. It’s fun to hover over a certain country and see where they lie on the charts.

Equality

These next two graphs look into the distribution of sports and participants by gender, starting in 1900 when women were first allowed to compete in the Olympics.

Good news - for the first time, there was an equal number of women and men participating in the Olympics this year! The percentage of women has steadily increased over the years with a few ups and downs. Similarly, The percentage of events that are offerred for women has increased over the years, although this has not reached 50% yet. It peaked at the 2020 Olympics at 46%, so we’re getting close!

These were my Olympics charts! I hope you liked them!