Larissa Latynina
SwimmingMichael Phelps won 22 medals in Olympic Swimming. He is the most decorated Olympian of all time.Gold - 18 (Olympic record)Silver - 2Bronze - 2
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Larissa Latynina has won the most medals won in a career with 18 medals; nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze. She is a is a Russian-Ukrainian and former soviet gymnast.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is Eduardo Mangiarotti who won 6 gold medals in fencing between 1936-1960.
Russian athletes won 33 medals in the Sochi Olympics. Thirteen of those were gold medals. Norway won eleven gold medals. The United States won 28 medals in Sochi.
United States swimmer, Michael Phelps, won the most medals in the London 2012 Olympics.6 Total: 4 Gold, 2 Silver
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is Halil Mutlu who won 3 gold medals in weightlifting between 1996-2004 and Naim Süleymanoğlu who won 3 gold medals in weightlifting between 1988-1996.
Russian women have won 32 total medals so far in the 2012 Olympic games in London.
The most medals won by a French Olympian is 8 by fencers Philippe Cattiau and Roger Ducret. Both won 3 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze. The most gold medals won by a French Olympian is 4 by fencers Christian d'Oriola and Lucien Gaudin. Cyclists Felicia Ballanger, Daniel Morelon, and Robert Charpentier, sprinter Marie-José Pérec, and alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy each won 3 gold medals.
As of the 2008 Olympics Michael Phelps has won 14 gold medals in swimming (16 total medals), second on the list is Raymond Ewry who won a total of 10 gold medals in track & field. as a sidenote if Michael Phelps wins 3 more medals of any type he will pass Larisa Latynina as the winner of most Olympic medals. Between 1956 & 1964 Ms Latynina won 18 total medals in gymnastics. The most medals won by a single swimmer at the Olympics is Michel Phelps of the U.S.A. who won a total of eight medals at the 2008 Olympics held in Beijing 2008.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is Nicolás Massú who won 2 gold medals in tennis (men's singles and men's doubles with Fernando González at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens).