Five by Paavo Nurmi of Finland at the 1924 Games in Paris. He won gold in men's cross country, team cross country, team 3000 meter run, men's 1500 meter run, and men's 5000 meter run.
Four events. It is the same for any track meet, on any level.
Carl Lewis (He won 10 Olympic medal, 9 of them gold)
track field came from a black man
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is track and field's Carl Lewis of the United States with 10 (9 gold, 1 silver).
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Carl Lewis was an American track and field athlete who won 10 medals in Olympic competition.
No, he was an African-American track and field athlete in the 1936 Olympics.
Dwight Stone, Track and Field athlete wore the Mickey Mouse shirt in the 1972 Olympics in Montreal.
In the Winter Olympics, speed skating. In the Summer Olympics, athletics (track and field).
Team USA.
Wilma Rudolph.
Jesse Owens.
Wilma Rudolph.
Dame Kelly Holmes won two Olympic Gold Medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics; 800m and the 1500m, in the progress she became the third woman to the 800-1500m double at the Olympics and first British athlete to win two track-and-field gold medals at the same Olympics in 84 years!She also has won a bronze medal in the 800m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Four events. It is the same for any track meet, on any level.
Marion Jones was a former athlete, who for a living, was a basketball player for the Tulsa Shock in the WNBA and was also a track and field champion. For the latter, she won 5 medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but was forced to forfeit her medals after her confession of using performance-enhancing drugs.