Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe
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Don Quarrie
Germany
Sir Steven Redgrave has won the most gold medals by a British athlete, with 5 (coxed four 1984, 2000, coxed pair 1988, 1992, 1996) and has also won one bronze (coxed four 1988).
Jesse Ownes (USA).
It was Jesse Owens. In 1936 Jesse Owens was the first sprinter to win four Olympic golds in one year. Athlete Carl Lewis matched his record in 1984.
Venus Williams won four Olympic gold 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.
Taking all international athletes into consideration, the one with the most Olympic medals overall is a Russian-Ukranian, Larissa Latynina. A former Soviet gymnast, she won more Olympic medals than anyone in history, male or female, in any sport. She won 18 medals; nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze.
There are five Australian athletes who have competed in the Olympics more than four times. They are Andrew Hoy, who has won four medals in Equestrian; Colin Coates, a retired speed skater with no medals; Colin Beashel, a retired sailing athlete with one medal; Russel Mark, a shooting athlete with two medals, and James Tomkins, a retired rowing athlete with four medals.
Roger Bannister, a british medical student did in 1954.