The best figure skater in the winter Olympics is yo han disimo.
Michelle Kwan.
Speed skater Eric Heiden won 5 gold medals in the 1980 Winter Olympics by sweeping all 5 events.
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Speed skater Eric Heiden of the United States with 5.
Figure skater Peggy Fleming won the only gold medal for the US in the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Figure skater Peggy Fleming won the only gold medal for the US in the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Evgeni Plushenko is the only male singles skater in the modern era to have won four Olympic medals, winning one in each of four consecutive Winter Games. He won silver in the 2002 Winter Olympics, gold in 2006, silver in 2010, and gold in the inaugural team competition in 2014.
15 years(normal Olympics), 17 years in winter Olympics(a top Japanese figure skater who was 16, turning 17 after the winter olypmics, was not allowed to join.)
Speed skater Eric Heiden won 5 gold medals in the 1980 Winter Olympics by sweeping all 5 events. It was an unprecedented even that will probably never happen again.
1, a silver in ladies singles at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary.
Michael Phelps who participates in the summer Olympics has won the most amount of medals (14). In the winter Olympics, Apollo Ohno the speed skater. See the related link below for a more in depth answer.