The table provides the number of medal recipients of the top ten countries in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Overall, the ranking did not correlate with the sum of medals but with the number of gold medals.
Analysing the relationship between the number of each medal and the ranking, the position evaluation was certainly about the number of gold medals these countries received.
For instance, Great Britain was the second runner-up with a total medals of just 65, while Russia, holding 82 medals, was still in one place behind. In fact, what made Great Britain greater was the gold medals they won.
Another interesting case was found between the sixth and seventh place, countries owning the same number of gold medals were classified by the number of silver medals, which in this case, Germany was eventually in the sixth, whereas France was in the seventh.