Athens - Olympics hosts Greece took out their pocket calculators on Sunday and claimed they won more medals than any other nation in the Games - measured against the country's 11 million population.
"Considering the ratio of medals to our population we rank first, together with Hungary," the Greek team's chief Yiannis Papadoyiannakis told a news conference.
With only a few competitions still to be completed on the final day of the Olympics Sunday, Greece's 440-strong team were ranked fourteenth on the Games' medal table with a total 15
won - six gold, five silver and four bronze.
The Greeks thus improved their previous record from the 2000 Sydney Games, where they picked up a total 13 medals.
Hungary, with a population of 10 million, ranks 12th with 18 medals - eight gold, seven silver and three bronze.
Papadoyiannakis said his team could have surpassed the Hungarians if judges had not been unfair in certain competitions.
"We lost some medals... we had no home advantage," Papadoyiannakis said.
The Greek team filed four objections against allegedly unfair judge rulings in the Games - all dismissed.
Papadoyiannakis shrugged off the doping scandals that rocked the home team during the Games.
The country's top sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou withdrew from the Olympics for failing to show up at a doping test on the eve of the Games.
And Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was the Games' first athlete to have his medal stripped for failing a drugs test.
"Doping is not only our problem. We have the case of Kenteris and Thanou which is about non-availability for a doping test, which is not considered as doping.
"And we have a positive doping test (for Sampanis), where the exactitude of his sample's measurement has not been clarified yet," Papadoyiannakis said.
The Greek team has appealed the International Olympic Committee's decision to take away Sampanis' medal.
Sampanis's urine sample had shown illegally high amounts of testosterone. - Sapa-AFP
