Steve Redgrave (5).
Michael Phelps 8 gold medals
The most successful and decorated Olympic athlete as of 2014 is Michael Phelps. He has 22 Olympic medals with 18 being gold medals.
It is Nicolas Massú, a tennis player who won both singles and doubles (with Fernando González) gold medals in the Athens 2004 Olympics, the only two gold medals that Chile has ever obtained.Fernando Gonzalez is a successful olympian too. Besides the gold medal with Massú, he won Bronze medal in Singles in Athens 2004, and silver medal in Beijing 2008Olympics.
Tanni Grey-Thompson won 11 gold medals in the Paralympics
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Tanni Grey-Thompson won 11 gold medals in the Paralympics
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.
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Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is Eduardo Mangiarotti who won 6 gold medals in fencing between 1936-1960.
19 gold medals
The British female Olympian to win the most medals is Kathleen McKane who won 5 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) in tennis events at the 1920 Games in Antwerp and the 1924 Games in Paris.
13 gold medals were won by England. 14 gold medals were won by Australia.