Talk:2009 World Judo Championships

How exactly does one silver rank four spots above 4 bronzes? The "ranking system" is flawed. Will someone remove the rank from the medal table and instead include the option to sort the table by nation/gold/silver/bronze/total ? I see no reason to keep it this way as there's no international standard that states that 1 silver > 4 bronze.

It does, if one ranks by medal type, not by total. You could have 30 bronzes and 1 silver would still be "better". Flawed or not, it's a ranking system that is used by quite some major organizations. The IAAF uses it (see 2009 WCh medal table), the International Olympic Committee uses it (they don't rank countries but they keep a medal table for statistical purposes); you can check the several Olympic Games medal tables at their website (see 2008 Olympics medal table, for instance). In the case of judo, the IJF also ranks by medal type (see 2009 WC medal table) so this ranking is perfectly legitimate, even if many people and countries are more used to the ranking-by-total system. Parutakupiu (talk) 12:32, 30 August 2009 (UTC)