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Medal Muddle
Countries from across the world competed in a sports tournament. Can you devise an efficient strategy to work out the order in which they finished?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Below are some interesting measurements and records from events at the Olympic Games. Unfortunately they have been muddled up.
Can you regroup them correctly? You can print off and cut out this set of cards.
| Usain Bolt's 100 metres World Record |
40 | km |
| Mass of Women's Discus | 02:15:25 | mph |
| Women's Discus World Record | 1500 | km |
| Average speed of World Record Men's 50 km Walking race |
1 | metres |
| Men's Shot put World Record | 76.8 | hr:min:sec |
| Paula Radcliffe's Women's Marathon World Record |
6.16 | metres |
| Triathlon Swim (distance) | 8.77 | kg |
| Triathlon Bicycle ride (distance) | 10 | metres |
| Triathlon Run (distance) | 9.58 | seconds |
| Men's Pole Vault World Record | 23.12 | metres |
| Women's Long Jump World Record |
18 | cm |
| Men's High Jump World Record | 21.34 | hr:min:sec |
| Basketball hoop diameter | 10 | metres |
| Basketball hoop height | 01:49:55 | seconds |
| Diameter of Archery target | 7.52 | metres |
| Archers’ distance from the target | 01:46:25 | metres |
| Height of Diving platform | 2.45 | hr:min:sec |
| Men's 10km Swimming 2012 Olympics winner's time |
70 | inches |
| Men's 50m Freestyle Swimming 2012 Olympics winner's time |
122 | metres |
| Men's Triathlon 2012 Olympics winner's time |
10 | feet |
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