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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 , cricket 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 [ edit ]

To encourage competition, some event organizers or federations implement rules to prevent podium sweeps. At the 2008 Olympic Games , China won all six 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 four of the six medals available. ^{[2] [3]}

Lists of podium sweeps [ edit ]

• 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 Olympic snowboarding
• List of medal sweeps in Olympic cross-country skiing
• List of medal sweeps in Paralympic Games

See also [ edit ]

• Whitewash (sport)

References [ edit ]

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