If you assign a numeric value to gold, silver and bronze. Where gold is 3 points, silver is 2 and bronze 1 and if tied then more gold is better, then the ladder will look like this:

China 88
USA 83
South Korea 35
Australia 35
Germany 31
Italy 29
Russia 29
France 26
Japan 24
Great Britain 13

Theres always another way ^^