๐ŸŽ‚ Birthday Paradox ยท Sports
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Olympic Artistic Gymnastics

Team

23 team lists ยท 115 player entries ยท avg team size 5.0

Read this sport as a comparison between raw coincidence and what team size alone predicts. Here, the real rate is +6.0 points above the birthday-paradox baseline.

Real team lists
8.7%
teams with shared birthdays
Why it matters: This is the headline rate, but it should never be read without team size.
Expected from size
2.7%
from avg team size
Why it matters: This is the fair baseline: what same-size random teams would do.
Gap from expected
+6.0 points
real โˆ’ expected
Why it matters: Positive means the sport has more birthday matches than size alone predicts.
Team lists
23
teams analysed
Why it matters: Small sample: treat the rate as a lead, not a verdict.
What to notice: The best question on a sport page is not "is the real rate high?" but "is it high after accounting for team size?" That is what the gap card is answering.

Country comparison

Countries with the most team lists for Olympic Artistic Gymnastics, charted by the share of teams with at least one shared birthday.

Gender split inside this sport

Real and expected rates for labelled team lists in this sport.

Why it matters: The gender gap is mostly a team-size story. Women have the larger average team size here (5.0 athletes), so their birthday-match rate naturally rises.

By country

Top 40 countries by team-list count.

CountryTeam listsAvg playersReal
CAN25.00.0%
USA25.00.0%
CHN25.00.0%
ITA25.00.0%
GBR25.050.0%
NED25.050.0%
AUS15.00.0%
ESP15.00.0%
BRA15.00.0%
GER15.00.0%
FRA15.00.0%
KOR15.00.0%
JPN15.00.0%
ROU15.00.0%
SUI15.00.0%
TUR15.00.0%
UKR15.00.0%
What to notice: Countries with larger average teams will naturally show more shared birthdays. The country list is most useful for finding which samples are driving this sport's overall rate.

By gender

Where the dataset records it.

GenderTeam listsRealExpectedGap
Women119.1%2.7%+6.4 points
Men128.3%2.7%+5.6 points

Sample team lists

Largest teams in the dataset.

TeamSeasonPlayersRepeatsExpected chance
Great Britain - Men's Team ยท GBR2024 Summer512.7%
Netherlands - Women's Team ยท NED2024 Summer512.7%
Canada - Men's Team ยท CAN2024 Summer502.7%
People's Republic of China - Men's Team ยท CHN2024 Summer502.7%
Spain - Men's Team ยท ESP2024 Summer502.7%
Germany - Men's Team ยท GER2024 Summer502.7%
Italy - Men's Team ยท ITA2024 Summer502.7%
Japan - Men's Team ยท JPN2024 Summer502.7%
Netherlands - Men's Team ยท NED2024 Summer502.7%
Switzerland - Men's Team ยท SUI2024 Summer502.7%
What to notice: The sample team lists show the mechanics: once the player count gets large, the expected chance climbs quickly, and each repeat is another player landing on a date already present.