Wilma Rudolph.
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Carl Lewis was an American track and field athlete who won 10 medals in Olympic competition.
Wilma Rudolph.
No female Sprinter has ever won 4 gold medals in track and field. However, in 1936, a male sprinter by the name of Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in Track and Field.
Jesse Ownes (USA).
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee was never stripped of her gold medals. She is a retired American track and field athlete who won multiple Olympic medals during her career, including two gold medals in the heptathlon event in 1988 and 1992.
No, Alvin Kraenzlein did that before Owens did.
Carl Lewis (He won 10 Olympic medal, 9 of them gold)
Wilma Rudolph
Medals are awarded for events and 962 were awarded. The 42 medals awarded just for the Men and Women's Basketball, Handball, Soccer, Volleyball, Water Polo, and Field Hockey were received by over 500 athletes because every member of a team gets a medal. Every Athlete from the 2 athlete team for Beach Volleyball or the 12 Member Indoor Volleyball Team to the 16 member Field Hockey's Team has earned an event medal that is counted as a single medal.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is track and field's Carl Lewis of the United States with 10 (9 gold, 1 silver).