As of the 2008 Games, five athletes have won gold medals in five different Games. Two of those have won gold in six different Games: 1) Hungarian fencer Aladár Gerevich - 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960
2) German kayaker Birgit Fischer - 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
3) British rower Steve Redgrave - 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000
4) Hungarian fencer Pál Kovács - 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960
5) German equestrian Reiner Klimke - 1964, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1988
The United States won twelve medals at the 1932 games, six gold medals, four silver medals, and two bronze medals.
Kristin Otto of West Germany won 6 gold medals in swimming.
In the winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998, US women won four (4) gold medals. Three (3) individual gold medals and a team gold for the ice hockey. (The total of gold medals won by Americans was six. US men won two (2).)
six in the Olympics 3 gold 1 silver and 2 bronze.
twenty six............09-gold....06-silver............11-bronze.
Gymnast Vitaly Shcherbo, born in Belarus and competing for the Unified Team.
twenty six ...............09-gold...........06-silver............11-bronze.
Medals
There have been two winter Olympic games held in Japan. In the winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998, US women won four (4) gold medals. Three (3) individual gold medals and a team gold for the ice hockey. The total of gold medals won by Americans was six. US men won two (2). See the Related Link for "US medals at Nagano 1998" more more on the answer.
Michael Jordan (gold medal in basketball), Vitaly Scherbo (six gold medals in artistic gymnastics), Fu Mingxia (13 year old gold medalist in diving), Evelyn Ashford (won a fourth gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay footrace), Krisztina Egerszegi (3 swimming gold medals), Linford Christie (won gold in the 100 meter dash at the age of 32), Yael Arad and Oren Smadja (first Israeli medalists ever at the Olympics).
Two .. in the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
Libby Trickett has competed in two Olympics (2004/Athens, 2008/Beijing) and won six medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze).