Dorthy Hamill for USA won in 1976.
Through the 2006 Games in Turin, the United States has won the most Olympic medals in both men's singles and ladies singles figure skating. The men have won 14 medals (6 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze) and the ladies have won 23 medals (7 gold, 8 silver, 8 bronze).
That is Eric Heiden of the United States who won 5 speed skating gold medals at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
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Michael Phelps.
The ladies' single (figure skating) world record was the the most significant record broken at the 2010 Olympic games. Kim Yuna of South Korea broken the then world record in the short program, free skate, and total.
Eric Heiden's record for the most medals won in a single Olympic Games was broken by Norwegian cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie. Heiden achieved his record by winning five gold medals in speed skating at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. Dæhlie surpassed this feat by winning eight medals, including seven golds, over the course of the 1994 Lillehammer and 1998 Nagano Olympics.
It was the American swimmer Mark Spitz in the 1972 Munich olympic games with 7 gold medals.
Most decorated swimming, most Olympic gold medals all time, and most Olympic Gold medals in a single game.
Michael Phelps and Alexander Dityatin (8 each).
Canada won 14 gold medals in the 2010 Vancouver games - the record for a single Winter games.
Mark Andrew Spitz