South Africa currently sit in 34th on the Olympic medals table after Sunette Viljoen and Henri Schoeman bagged silver and bronze respectively on Thursday in Rio‚ but are lagging in the medals per capita table where they rank 56th. Viljoen won silver in the women’s javelin with a throw of 64.92m‚ just 26cm behind gold medal-winner Sara Kolak from Croatia. Schoeman‚ meanwhile‚ took bronze in the men’s triathlon behind Britain’s Brownlee brothers‚ Alistair and Jonathan.Team SA has now claimed nine medals‚ one gold‚ six silver and two bronze. That tally should increase to their intended target of 10 when Caster Semenya‚ barring injury or a fall‚ claims a medal in Saturday’s women’s 800m final. The USA tops the medals table with 100‚ which includes 35 gold‚ 33 silver and 32 bronze medals. Great Britain and China are next with 56 and 58 medals respectively (Team GB has 22 gold to China’s 20‚ which is the first tie-breaker on the medals table).But a more accurate measure of a team’s success at the Olympics is the amount of medals it wins relative to the size of its population. And in this category it’s usually countries with low populations that dominate. According to the medalspercapita.com website‚ which tracks this statistic using official 2015 population figures from the World Bank‚ Grenada is the most successful nation at Rio 2016.Grenada leads the list one medal (400m silver medallist Kirani James) for their 106 825 citizens.Team SA ranks 56th on medals per capita with one medal won for every 6 106 324 people. The USA are also be way down the charts by this measure. Despite winning 100 medals‚ the USA ranks 38th with one medal for every 3 214 188 people.China are near the bottom because they have more 1.3-billion people. Their 58-medal tally gives them a haul of one medal per 23 641 724 people.India‚ the world’s second-most populous country ranks last with only one medal despite a population of 1.3 billion people. – TMG Sport..