Kosovo Ahead of India and Greece in Medals, “Tied” with Mexico, Switzerland and Turkey

Kosovo is doing better in medals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games than India, the country with the world’s largest population.

While our country, at least until midday Thursday, held 34th place in the medal standings, the Asian giant is eight places lower, in 42nd.

In fact, India has one more medal than Kosovo, three in total, but all of them are bronze, which are worth less than a silver.

Kosovo is also ahead of many other countries with larger populations and more developed sports. Greece is 10 places lower, with only one bronze medal. Further down, countries such as Slovakia, Egypt and Austria are also behind Kosovo.

“Superstates” such as Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine are tied with Kosovo in terms of medals, all having one silver and one bronze.

Another interesting fact is that Spain and Poland, two large European countries, each have only one more bronze medal than Kosovo. Kosovo’s main “enemy,” Serbia, is 11 places higher, but has only one medal, which “unfortunately” happens to be gold.

All the medals Kosovo has won—two at this Olympics, two at the Tokyo Games and one in Rio de Janeiro—have come in a single sport, judo.