Mitch Gaylord is the gymnast who starred in American Anthem and was an Olympic Medalist as well as the NCAA All Around Champion a few months earlier in the same arena that hosted the Olympic Gymnastics competition at UCLA. Mitch was a very talented and accomplished gymnast who had two highly innovative high bar skills named after him - the Gaylord and The Gaylord II. Even today these high bar moves are difficult enough that few gymnasts include them in their routines.
No. Nesar Ahmad Bahave has won medals at the Asian Games and World Championships but not at the Olympics. He has competed at one Olympics, the 2008 Games in Beijing, and finished 7th in featherweight class (68 kg) taekwondo.
Some are ... 1) Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway - won the most medals in Winter Olympics history with 12 ... 8 gold and 4 silver in cross country skiing. 2) Birgit Fischer of Germany - won 12 medals (8 gold and 4 silver) in canoeing and won a gold medal in 6 different Olympics. 3) Bonnie Blair of the United States - won 6 medals (5 gold and 1 bronze) in speed skating. 4) Bob Beamon of the United States - won gold at the 1968 Summer Games in men's long jump, breaking the existing world record by 55 cm (21 3/4 inches).
Yes, Martin Luther King, Jr. won many medals and awards. Some of the most significant medals and awards are:Nobel Peace Prize (1964)American Liberties Medallion (1965)Spingarn Medal (1957)Margaret Sanger Award (1966)Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (1966, posthumous)Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977, posthumous)Congressional Gold Medal (2004, posthumous)
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A Russian gymnast with 18 medals
Carly Patterson and Paul Hamm won the gold medals
Bea Lucero-Lhuillier and Danica Calapatan are both Philippine gymnasts that won medals at the Olympics.
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The most Olympic Medals record is held by Larissa Semyonovna Latynina, A Soviet Gymnast who won 18 total Medals(9g, 5s, 4b) in the 1950s.
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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.
To clarify the question this is not Jackie Chan the actor but Jackie Chan the Chinese gymnast.
In the recent 2008 Beijing games Michael Phelps won the most medals with 8 golds. In past games the most medals won by an individual is 18 medals won by Larisa Latynina a Ukrainian Gymnast in 1964.
Nadia Comaneci, A Romanian Gymnast, winner of 3 olympic gold medals was the first ever to achieve a perfect 10 in Gymnastics.
One name all knows as Romanian brand in Sport and Olympics: Nadia Comanici, gymnast with highest number of medals in one sport in Olympics from Romania(gymnastics)
Gymnast Aleksec Nemov of Russia with 6 (2 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze).