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Nuestro equipo ganaba tantas medallas como el otro.

Nuestro equipo ganaba tantas medallas como el otro.
Our team used to win as many medals as the other one.
From Lesson 135:Comparisons of equality (tan... como, tanto... como)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Nuestro equipo ganaba tantas medallas como el otro.

Why is it tantas medallas como instead of tan medallas como?
When comparing quantities of nouns (things you can count or measure, like medallas), you use a form of tanto ("as much" or "as many"). Because medallas is feminine and plural, tanto changes to tantas to match. You only use tan when comparing adjectives or adverbs (like tan rápido como for "as fast as").
Why use ganaba here instead of ganó?
The imperfect tense ganaba is used because this describes a repeated or habitual action in the past, which translates here as "used to win." If you used the preterite tense ganó, it would mean the team won the medals at one specific, completed event.
Why does the sentence end with el otro (masculine singular) when the medals are feminine plural?
El otro translates to "the other one," and it refers back to el equipo (the team), which is masculine and singular. It is short for el otro equipo. It does not refer to the medals!
Why is the verb singular (ganaba) when a team is made up of many people?
In Spanish, collective nouns like equipo (team), familia (family), or grupo (group) take a singular verb because the word itself is singular. You conjugate the verb for nuestro equipo exactly as you would for "he," "she," or "it."

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