Countries that have won 10 or more summer Olympic medals, but never a winter Olympic medal Quiz

Can you name the countries that have won 10 or more summer Olympic medals, but never a winter Olympic medal?

created by MileHiJo

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Source: Sports Reference: Olympics
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Total Summer Medals	Country
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146
108
87
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Total Summer Medals	Country
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	McBeergio:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 15:13 GMT		9 points
	Great quiz! I never would have guessed that this list would be so extensive.

	citkeane:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 15:32 GMT		11 points
	India's success rate at the Olympics, or lack thereof, is pretty surprising. I suppose the fact that cricket isn't an Olympic sport doesn't help.

	dje:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 15:37 GMT		12 points
	'nuff people say they know they can't believe, Jamaica, we have a bobsled team! :-)

	GwynE:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 15:43 GMT		5 points
	Citkeane. Of India's 20 medals 11 have come from men's Field Hockey and they can only win one per Olympiad so their performance is even less impressive.

	WyattsTorch:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 15:47 GMT		20 points
	Lithuania! Nothing like being one of the northernmost countries but having nothing but summer medals to your name.

	indianwolf1992:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 15:57 GMT		5 points
	@citkeane: It's also due to very poor sports infrastructure (except for cricket). Even now India tends to win medals in shooting and wrestling that are less dependent on infrastructure.

	Tony_A:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 16:01 GMT		6 points
	I'm a bit surprised that just over 50% are getting Greece.

	Razorblade:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 16:09 GMT		1 point
	Surprised to see Argentina and Greece.

	Tony_A:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 16:16 GMT		4 points
	@Razorblade, Greece only had 7 people at the Vancouver games. It's hard to field a large team when your winter low is in the mid-'40s.

	BiloxiSean:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 16:26 GMT		18 points
	You would figure that someone from Greece would slide down a ski slope real easy. Or Turkey would gobble up all the gold medals in the Winter Olympics. I'm here all week.

	Strummer174:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 16:56 GMT		10 points
	You've screwed me for the last time, Mongolia.

	ari18:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 17:07 GMT		6 points
	Ireland? You guys have snow and hills! You can do this!

	moviegoer74:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 17:22 GMT		17 points
	I think it is still the case that not a single South American has ever won an individual medal at the Winter Olympics. You'd think there'd be that one dude from Peru who learned to ski in the Andes and managed a bronze in the Super G in Calgary or something, but no. Not a one.

	matt01:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 17:52 GMT		9 points
	@ari18 Ireland and the UK only get snow like once or twice a year and the only significantly high mountain range is in the Highlands of Scotland.

Total Summer Medals	Country
24
24
23
23
22
21
21
19
18
15
13
12
12
12
10
10
10

	segacs:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 18:16 GMT		9 points
	I was thrown by the "Olympics quizzes may include nations that don't currently exist but competed in past Olympic Games" hint. I spent way too long guessing former countries that don't exist anymore, only to find that there were none on this quiz.

	Tony_A:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 18:23 GMT		4 points
	I don't know that I'd call the winter Olympics "Greece's games." True, they still march out fist, but Greece didn't participate in the Winter Olympics until 1936, and they only had 2 athletes.

	Pogues:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 18:46 GMT		6 points
	Sporcle makes the brain work in mysterious ways. I considered both Vatican City and South Sudan as answers. I did resist trying them...but I thought them nonetheless. I did try Tuvalu though...

	diving:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 19:04 GMT		6 points
	matt01 - and even calling the Highlands of Scotland a "significantly high mountain range" is generous

	buppyspek:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 20:25 GMT		-1 points
	Surprisingly, I didn't even think to try Kyrgyzstan.

	ari18:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 21:52 GMT		2 points
	@matt01, diving: I'm from Minnesota originally. We don't have mountains either, but we ski on hills or cross country. I believe in Irish ingenuity, they can figure this one out!

	mrsiriustab:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 01:11 GMT		2 points
	Currently watching the Opening Ceremonies. This is amazing! Even better than China! Great job, London!

	DaDude:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 01:54 GMT		-1 points
	Currently watching the ceremonies too, and there goes the Ecuador flag. Good luck to all countries! (And some nations as well!)

	cocky:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 02:23 GMT		7 points
	They just said the only country to win a Winter medal but not in the Summer is Liechtenstein.

	newenglander:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 04:22 GMT		5 points
	@moviegoer-It becomes even more amazing when you take Argentina and Chile into account, countries that actually have ski resorts, and where olympic skiers go to train when its summer in the northern hemisphere

	moviegoer74:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 05:20 GMT		-3 points
	@mrsiriustab...I love the Olympics. I'm totally all-in on it all the time. I bought the triple cast in 1992. I still have the Beijing opening ceremony on my DVR it was so awesome. I'm not a naysayer. But I thought this ceremony was horrendous. That Franky & Johnny Say Thanks to Tim number was abominable. Compared to that floor show with the lit boxes going up and down in rhythm that seemed to be computerized but then it turned out that every box was just a chinese person underneath crouching or standing? Seriously, come on over to my house and watch the Beijing ceremony again. You'll change your opinion that London was better.

	Mackadal:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 20:06 GMT		0 points
	It`s hard to succeed in skiing, a sport that requires thousands of $ of equipment, in a country where the majority lives below the poverty line. Even if there are snowy mountains. I`m fine with Winter Olympics being so exclusive, though- more medals for Canada.

	mrsiriustab:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 20:41 GMT		-1 points
	Moviegoer, fine. Let's have our own different opinions. While there were some impressive moments in China as you mention (and by all means, China's OC was awesome, too), personally, I preferred London's.

	mrsiriustab:	Jul 28th, 2012 at 20:45 GMT		2 points
	Also, I'm not fond of going to strangers' houses.

	Badgerhawk:	Aug 1st, 2012 at 19:51 GMT		3 points
	Chile and Argentina, home of the roof of the South American continent, no medals ever, pretty amazing.

	MileHiJo:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 17:08 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for publishing this, Sporcle! I can't update it anymore but the medal counts need to be adjusted for all of the medals won in London. It won't change the results except for Armenia. Armenia now has 10 summer medals and no winter medals, so it needs to be added. Thanks! Also, looking back at the source I see that "Australasia" competed in 1908 and 1912 and won 12 medals. I know that is not a country, but maybe this should be a (very obscure) bonus?

	osasunaitor:	Oct 17th, 2012 at 01:15 GMT		1 point
	How can the second most populated country in the world only have 20 summer medals and not even a winter one? A small country like Georgia having almost the same amount of medals than India is unbelieveable, even more provided that Georgia has existed just for 20 years!

	Raoul21:	Apr 23rd, 2013 at 18:49 GMT		1 point
	....Lithuania....