Top 10 countries that dominate specific sports

8. Hungary’s iron grip on Water Polo

One of the greatest Hungarian Water Polo players of all time

The Semi Final Water Polo match in the 1956 Summer Olympics has a very significant history attached to it – the Hungarian Revolution began while the athletes were about to leave for the Olympic Games. While the uprising was crushed by the Soviet Army, the enraged athletes vowed to take revenge in the pool and hence ensued one of the most violent encounters in Water Polo history. Hungary crushed the Russians 4-0 and defeated Yugoslavia in the Finals.

Hungary has won 9 Olympic Gold Medals. They won their first Gold Medal in the 1932 Los Angeles Games.

7. Cuba – the boxing haven

Teofilo Stevenson – The Cuban Boxing Great

Of the 99,000 athletes in Cuba currently, 19,000 are boxers, including 81 of Olympic competence, even though only 12 make the Olympic team.

The sport arrived in this nation as a tourist attraction, but the people of the country now live and breathe boxing. From 1968 in Mexico City to the Sydney Games in 2000, Cubans have participated in 7 Olympic tournaments, winning 27 gold medals, 13 silver medals, and 7 bronze medals for a total of 47—a number unmatched by any country.

Cuba is the only country that can boast of two three-time Olympic Champions: Teofilo Stevenson and Félix Savón. At the London Olympics in 2012, Cuba won 2 Gold and 2 bronze medals.