Podium sweep

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A podium sweep is where a team or nation comes in first, second and third, such as at the Olympics, and wins all available medals, which are recognized by a podium ceremony. The word sweep is commonly used in North American sports such as baseball, basketball and ice hockey which have playoff or regular season series, to describe a situation where one team wins all the games in a series, for example, with a 4–0 victory in a best-of-seven series.

The term is also used in a broader sense when a country, team or athlete wins all possible prizes in a competition.^[1] At the highest level, that would be when one nation wins all the medals in the Olympics.

Prevention[]

To encourage competition, some event organizers or federations implement rules to prevent podium sweeps. At the 2008 Olympic Games, China won all 6 medals at the singles events in Table Tennis, across both genders. Following this, the ITTF limited each country at the Olympics to entering a maximum of two contestants per gender in the singles competition, thereby ensuring that no country could win more than 4 of the 6 medals available.^[2][3]

Lists of podium sweeps[]

• List of medal sweeps in Olympic athletics
• List of medal sweeps in Olympic table tennis
• List of medal sweeps in Olympic speed skating
• List of medal sweeps in Olympic figure skating
• List of medal sweeps in snowboarding
• List of medal sweeps in cross-country skiing
• List of medal sweeps in Paralympic Games

See also[]

• Whitewash (sport)

References[]

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