South Korea wins WCG medal count

With eight medals, including three gold ones, South Korea is the winning country of the 2009 World Cyber Games.

South Korea had been the winner in Cologne and confirmed its strong position in the gaming industry this year in Chengdu, even picking up one more medals than in 2008.

The hosting country, China, managed to collect just two medals, one gold and one silver, both of which came from the Warcraft III tournament, where the Chinese players were highly favoured for places on the podium.

The winning nation for Counter-Strike, Poland, also picked up a bronze medal in the FIFA 09 competition, while Sweden's other two medals came from Trackmania.

Below you can find the complete medal table for the 2009 World Cyber Games.

Rank	Nation				T
1	South Korea	3	2	3	8
2	Sweden	1	2	-	3
3	Germany	1	1	1	3
4	Japan	1	1	-	2
4	China	1	1	-	2
4	Brazil	1	1	-	2
7	Poland	1	-	1	2
8	United States	-	1	2	3
9	Norway	-	-	1	1
9	Denmark	-	-	1	1

Below you can find a list of all the medalists at WCG 2009:

• Counter-Strike:AGAiN fnatic mTw
• Wacraft III:InFi Fly100% Lyn
• Starcraft:Jaedong Stork Bisu
• FIFA 09: Kr0ne hero Pio_
• Guitar Hero: caiomenudo13 Shift smokyprogg
• Carom3D: MARCJACOBS jeantek Protonski
• Red Stone: ComeonBaby HAPPY_SWEETS Cool_Runnings
• Trackmania: KarjeN FrostBeule Bergie
• Virtua Fighter 5: FOOD ShinZ_Km Rikojjang

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