Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, swimmers Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres each have won 12 Olympic medals, the most of any American woman athlete. Thompson won 8 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze and Torres won 4 gold, 4 silver, and 4 bronze.
Ian Thorpe (born October 13, 1982 in Sydney) is a retired Australian swimmer who won five gold medals at the Olympics, a record for an Australian athlete, and was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Olympic Games, picking up three gold medals and two silver medals.
Prior to 2010, Bonnie Blair had 6 Olympic gold medals. Apolo Ohno broke that record by winning 8 total medals.
Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps of USA (For swimming).
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.
Currently Michael Phelps holds the world record for the most Olympic medals won at 22 medals.
LARISSA LATYNINA has more Olympic medals than anyone in history, male or female, in any sport. She holds the record for winning the most Olympic medals at 18 (nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze). She is the only female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals. She also holds the record for most individual medals (14 outside of team events) in Olympic history.
The record for the most Olympic medals is held by Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina. Competing in three Olympics, between 1956 and 1964, she won 18 medals.
Michael Phelps holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals won by an individual athlete, with a total of 23 gold medals.
Most will say, especially after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, that Michael Phelps is the best male athlete. He won 8 gold medals; an Olympic record.
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Ian Thorpe (born October 13, 1982 in Sydney) is a retired Australian swimmer who won five gold medals at the Olympics, a record for an Australian athlete, and was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Olympic Games, picking up three gold medals and two silver medals.
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Prior to 2010, Bonnie Blair had 6 Olympic gold medals. Apolo Ohno broke that record by winning 8 total medals.
That would be Norwegian cross-country skier Bjorn Daehlie. He won 12 Olympic medals between 1992 and 1998, including 8 gold and 4 silver. The runner-up is Lyubov Yegorova of Russia, who holds the women's record with 9.
Michael Phelps, was trying to break the record of winning the most gold medals in Olympic (the record was seven) and he broke it by winning eight gold medals in one Olympic.
Through the 2006 Games in Turin, that is cross country skier Bjørn Dæhlie with 12 (8 gold, 4 silver). Dæhlie's 12 total medals and 8 gold medals is the Winter Olympics record for most total/gold medals won by an athlete.