Nations that never won a gold in World Championship in Olympic & Non-Olympic Sports

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 8/28/2018 at 12:02 PM, Gianlu33 said:

I think that we can count the SportAccord's federation, do you have other ideas?  

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Nope, that's exactly my idea, to still have basically every semi-serious sport, but avoid sports that have no international federation with more than 1-2 countries  

[Gianlu33 4,743]

Moldova won a gold in archery with Natalia Valeeva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_World_Archery_Championships

[thiago_simoes 1,425]

  On 8/27/2018 at 10:37 AM, heywoodu said:

Use Google Translate and you'll see I don't count the architecture medal, much like the IOC  

 

Also one might see India for example as piss-poor in terms of sports, seeing as they have literally more than a billion people yet barely perform better than most much smaller countries, but I specifically made the choice only for countries without official medals  

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Among the nations which have won medals, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Nigeria are the most disappointing given the number of people compared to the number of medals achieved. Brazil has improved over the last few years, but I'm aware we're probably disappointing too.

[szy123 79]

Fiji won gold in rugby sevens world cup in 1997 and 2005.

[szy123 79]

And Majlinda Kelmendi won gold for Kosovo at 2013 judo world championships.

[AlFHg 330]

is Aruba  still to be considered as a NOC? Isn't it part of the Netherlands like the Dutch Antilles?

[Gianlu33 4,743]

  On 8/28/2018 at 12:17 PM, AlFHg said:

is Aruba  still to be considered as a NOC? Isn't it part of the Netherlands like the Dutch Antilles?

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I count as NOC the countries tha have a NOC... apparently in Aruba we have the Comité Olímpico Arubano

[Gianlu33 4,743]

 and  won gold medals in shooting WCh

[AlFHg 330]

  On 8/28/2018 at 12:20 PM, Gianlu33 said:

I count as NOC the countries tha have a NOC

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obviously, otherwise some of the nations stated above shouldn't be considered. I just though that also Aruba was "adsorbed" by  

[szy123 79]

  On 8/28/2018 at 12:17 PM, AlFHg said:

is Aruba  still to be considered as a NOC? Isn't it part of the Netherlands like the Dutch Antilles?

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Aruba was independent from Netherlands Antilles since 80's or sth like that. Their NOC was formed before the regulations introduced in the early 90s.