Ian Thorpe
Swimming. He won a Silver medal in the Beijing 2008 Olympics in the 1500m Men's freestyle event and Bronze in the 4 X 200m Men's freestyle relay event.Prior to this, Hackett won Gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics, in the 1500m freestyle event, and Silver in the 4 X 200m freestyle relay and the 400m freestyle.Going back further, at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Hackett won Gold in both the 1500m freestyle event and the 4 X 200m freestyle relay.
Started training when he was 10, started walking when he was 1.
There was a Tie for silver medalSun YangChina (CHN)Park Tae-HwanSouth Korea (KOR)
2004 Athens: 4×200m freestyle relay - gold (1) 200m individual medley - silver (2) 2008 Beijing: 400m individual medley - bronze (3) 4×200m freestyle relay - gold (4) 200m backstroke - gold (5) 200m individual medley - bronze (6) 2012 London: 400m individual medley - gold (7) 4x100m freestyle - silver (8) 4X200m freestyle - gold (9) 200m backstroke ? 200m individual medley ? So far he has a total of 9 Olympic medals however I am posting this during the 2012 Olympics so there are potentially more to come for 2012.
2004 Athens: 4×200m freestyle relay - gold (1) 200m individual medley - silver (2) 2008 Beijing: 400m individual medley - bronze (3) 4×200m freestyle relay - gold (4) 200m backstroke - gold (5) 200m individual medley - bronze (6) 2012 London: 400m individual medley - gold (7) 4x100m freestyle - silver (8) 4X200m freestyle - gold (9) 200m backstroke ? 200m individual medley ? So far he has a total of 9 Olympic medals however I am posting this during the 2012 Olympics so there are potentially more to come for 2012.
Alicia Coutts won 5 medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay, bronze in the 100m butterfly, silver in the 4x100m medley relay, 200m individual medley & 4x200m freestyle relay team
Bronte BarrattAustralia (AUS)
During the Athen Olympics of 2004, Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe won a total of 4 medals: Gold in the men's 400m freestyle and the men's 200m freestyle. Silver in the men's 4x200m relay, together with Grant Hackett, Michael Klim and Nicholas Sprenger. Bronze in the men's 100m freestyle.
Allison SchmittUnited States (USA
Sri Lanka has only won two Olympic silver medals; 1) Susanthika Jayasinge's bronze for women's 200m in 2000 Sydney Olympics was later upgraded to silver after Marion Jones admitted taking drugs. 2) At the last London Olympics in 1948, Duncan White won silver at men's 400m hurdles.
Ian Thorpe of Australia in a time of 1:44.71, a new Olympic record.
There was a Tie for silver medal and the bronze medal was not awardedSilver medal went to bothSun YangChina (CHN)Park Tae-HwanSouth Korea (KOR)