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Who was the most successful female Olympic athlete ever?

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Through the 2008 Games, that would be gymnast Larissa Latynina of the former Soviet Union who won 18 medals (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) in Olympic competition in 1956, 1960, and 1964.

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