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Michael Phelps won the most gold medals, 5 total, out of all the athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
He won 16 Olympic medals, six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row. It was actually his worst performance of the 3 Olympics. Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time with 22 medals and he also has the record for Olympic gold medals with 18
He won 6 gold and 2 bronze in the Athens 2004 Olympics. A total of 8 medals in Athens.
He has 16 medals: 14 golds, and two bronze.
Michael Phelps is the athlete that has won the most Olympic medals in history to date. He is the youngest of three children. His father is Michael Fred Phelps and his mother is Deborah Sue Phelps. He has two sisters called Whitney and Hilary.
Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis. Also, Larissa Latynina of the Soviet Union and Paavo Nurmi of Finland won 9 gold medals in Olympic competition.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row. It was actually his worst performance of the 3 Olympics. Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time with 22 medals and he also has the record for Olympic gold medals with 18
That was Rebecca Adlington who won gold in the 400 meter freestyle and 800 meter freestyle.
Michael Phelps won six gold medals at the 2004 Games in Athens: 1) 400 meter individual medley 2) 4x100 meter medley relay 3) 100 meter butterfly 4) 4x200 meter freestyle relay 5) 200 meter butterfly 6) 200 meter individual medley Phelps also won two bronze medals at the 2004 Games, one in the 200 meter freestyle and one in the 4x100 meter freestyle relay. Michael Phelps placed second to Ian Thorpe in the event that would have given him his seventh gold medal in Athens. The albatross (Ian Thorpe) beat Phelps by less than .5 seconds.
23 gold medals Michael Phelps' 28 medals spanning five Games is unrivaled, and no other Olympic athlete comes close to his 23 gold medals. The swimmer made his mark on the Games starting over 20 years ago at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when, at 15 years old, he became the youngest man on U.S. Olympic swim team in 68 years.
Two .. in the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and the 1992 Games in Barcelona.