answersLogoWhite

0

Before Michael Phelps won 14 gold medals, athletes with 9 gold medals include Larissa Latynina, Mark Spitz, Paavo Nurmi, and Carl Lewis.

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Who was the most successful in the Olympics?

Well, the athlete that won the most medals in Olympic history is Larissa Latynina of the USSR who won 18 medals (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) in Olympic competition.


Larissa Semyonova Latynina aka Dirjl is the holder of the most Olympics medals?

Yes. Her 18 Olympic medals is the most an athlete has won in the history of the modern Olympics.


Is the bronze medal in the Olympics bronze?

It signifies that an athlete in an Olympic individual competition or a team in an Olympic team competition has finshed in third place.


What is an athelete in the Olympics called?

An Olympic athlete or Olympian competes in the Olympics.


How do you enter the 2014 Winter Olympics?

You have to join your country's olympic athlete team. Then you can go to the olympics.


Is luge a Olympic Game?

Luge is a Winter Olympics competition. WATCH THE OLYMPICS!


Who was the greatest athlete at all times in Olympic history?

Obviously, J.C. Owens is the greatest athlete of all times in Olympic history.


What do people have to do to be like an Olympics athlete?

people have to practice as much as they can to be like an olympic athlete because you are representing your country.


How do you spell olpympic?

Olympic. (The spelling of the quadrennial sports competition is the Olympics.)


Olympic athlete who has won the most medals in history?

The record for the most Olympic medals is held by Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina. Competing in three Olympics, between 1956 and 1964, she won 18 medals.


Is the word after the word Olympics capitalized?

The word Olympics is capitalized, a proper noun, it is the name of a specific sports competition held by the International Olympic Committee. When the word that comes after the proper noun Olympics is part of a title, such as The Twentieth Winter Olympic Games or The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, it should be capitalized. When the word Olympic is used as an adjective, such as an Olympic athlete, or an Olympic venue, it is not capitalized.The word Olympics is derived from the original ancient Olympics, an athletic competition said to have originated in the eighth century in Olympia Greece, also a proper noun, the name of a city.However, the word olympic or olympian are sometimes used as common nouns and adjectives for things not related to Olympia or the Olympics, such as an olympic effort or he's a real olympian. These uses should be capitalized but you will often see them in lower case.


How many times has laos won the Olympics?

No athlete from Laos has ever won an Olympic medal.