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For the second time in the last 16 years Bermuda has come out on top of the table compiled of Olympic "points'' per million inhabitants.

The Island's total is 68.965 points despite winning no medals in the Barcelona Games last summer.

But Brian Wellman's fifth place in the triple jump gave them gold in the Olympics points-per-capita table.

It is certainly a fine achievement when compared to Germany (22nd), Great Britain (41st), the United States of America (43rd) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (44th).

In each event eight points were assigned to the winner, seven to the second place and so on. The final figures were then divided by the country's population.

It means that Bermuda has more top sportsmen per head of population than any other nation.

India, despite its massive population, did not win a single medal and came bottom of the points table, out of all 84 nations competing in Barcelona.

New Zealand was fourth placed, Cuba sixth, the Bahamas eighth, Jamaica 15th, Trinidad 38th and the Dominican Republic 50th.

Brian Wellman's triple jump fifth place earned him four points which divided by the population gave Bermuda the title.

It is the second time Bermuda has been at the top of the points table. In 1976 Clarence Hill's bronze medal in heavyweight boxing earned him six points. The results were published in Italy's prestigious sports daily, La Gazzetta Dello Sport,'' in Milan.

They were headlined "Bermuda, The Victory Does Not Disappear.'' It went on to say: "Bermuda has won. This little archipelago, better known for the triangle, than for the results of its athletes.

"Nonetheless if we compare the number of inhabitants and the results obtained, Bermuda is the best sports country in the world.'' Mr. Austin Woods of the Bermuda Olympic Association, was delighted but not surprised at the news.

Mr. Woods said: "It should have been better really because Brian should have won the bronze medal.

"We are attending a meeting in Acapulco in November when these figures were going to be published, but I am not surprised by the result.

"We have won medals in the Commonwealth and Pan American Games in the past but in the Olympics there is only Clarence Hill's bronze.

"These results will be a boost for sportsmen and women in Bermuda. It is a sporting island.'' Mr. Marion Bortoli, manager of the Monte Carlo Restaurant in Victoria Street, Hamilton, provided the translation for the Gazzetta Dello Sport story.