# Placing table
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A '''placing table''' is a team [ranking](/source/ranking) system used in [sport](/source/sport)s [competition](/source/competition)s that feature multiple finals. It shares similarities with the better-known [medal table](/source/medal_table) found at most [multi-sport event](/source/multi-sport_event)s, but goes beyond the top three performers and assigns weighted scores to each athlete based on their overall final placing, then aggregates the scores of all athletes in a team to provide a final team standing. This system is most commonly found in the [sport of athletics](/source/sport_of_athletics): both the [International Association of Athletics Federations](/source/International_Association_of_Athletics_Federations) (IAAF) and [European Athletics](/source/European_Athletics) release placing tables for the major championships they organise. A typical system awards a decreasing number of points for the top eight finishers, with eight points for first place, down to one point for eighth place. Non-finishers and disqualified athletes typically receive zero points.[{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/Competitions/iaaf-world-u20-championships/iaaf-world-u20-championships-tampere-2018-6082/placingtable|title=2018 IAAF World U20 Championships - Placing table|publisher=iaaf.org|accessdate=17 July 2018}}][[https://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/history/year=2019/results/index.html European Athletics Indoor Championships - Glasgow 2019]. European Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-07.][[https://web.archive.org/web/20190901045758/https://digicorp-szeged2019-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/production/race/document/1/rank.pdf 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Placing Table]. ICF. Retrieved 2019-10-07.]
The advantage of a placing table over a traditional medal table is that it is a better indicator of the overall quality of a team – medal tables demonstrate a ranking bias in favour of teams with a small number of very high quality performers over larger teams with fewer medallists but a greater number of finalists.[[https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/davidbond/2011/09/van_commenee_claims_mission_ac.html Van Commenee claims "mission accomplished"]. BBC Sport (2019-10-07). Retrieved 2019-10-07.] Another advantage is that placing tables are less affected by post-competition [doping](/source/doping_in_sport) disqualifications, as reassignment of a points score is a simple technical adjustment compared to the minting and re-presentation of physical medals.[[https://www.iaaf.org/download/downloadresultinfo?filename=f0e8eb10-cb01-490a-ad69-e9b16a355816.pdf&urlSlug=rio-2016-olympic-games-athletics-statistics-h Rio 2016 Olympic Games Athletics Statistics Handbook]. IAAF (2016). Retrieved 2019-10-07.]
Several high profile [international athletics competitions](/source/List_of_international_athletics_competitions) are contested via a placing table format, with no individual medals awarded. Major competitions of this type are the [IAAF Continental Cup](/source/IAAF_Continental_Cup) (formed as the IAAF World Cup in 1977),[[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wp.htm IAAF World Cup]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-07.] the [European Team Championships](/source/European_Athletics_Team_Championships) (formed as the [European Cup](/source/European_Cup_(athletics)) in 1965),[[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/epm.htm European Cup]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-07.] the [European Champion Clubs Cup](/source/European_Champion_Clubs_Cup_(athletics)) (first held in 1975),[[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ech.htm European Champion Clubs Cup]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-07.] the [DécaNation](/source/D%C3%A9caNation) (created in 2005) and the [Athletics World Cup](/source/Athletics_World_Cup) (created in 2018). The [European Athletics Indoor Cup](/source/European_Athletics_Indoor_Cup), held from 2003 to 2008, is the highest level indoor [track and field](/source/track_and_field) competition to have used a placing table system.[[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/eip.htm European Indoor Cup]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-07.] The ranking system was already in use in athletics at the start of the 20th century, being the deciding factor in the [Finland-Sweden Athletics International](/source/Finland-Sweden_Athletics_International) since 1925.[[https://finnkampen.se/historien-om-finnkampen/resultat-historiskt/ Resultat 1925-2019]. Finnkampen. Retrieved 2019-10-07.]
A small-scale version of a placing table is found in [cross country running](/source/cross_country_running), where the team standing of a single race is decided by the aggregate placings of each team's athletes.[[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/xc.htm World Cross Country Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-07.] An alternative team scoring system exemplified by the [European Throwing Cup](/source/European_Throwing_Cup) is a performance-based team score, where each athlete's individual performance is converted into a score via a standardised points table and the team score is the aggregate of these performance scores, similar to a [decathlon](/source/decathlon).[
==See also==
* [Group tournament ranking system](/source/Group_tournament_ranking_system)
* [World Athletics Championships all-time placing table](/source/IAAF_World_Athletics_Championships)
* [IAAF World Indoor Championships all-time placing table](/source/IAAF_World_Indoor_Championships)
* [IAAF World Rankings](/source/IAAF_World_Rankings)
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.iaaf.org/home IAAF] official website
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