Zimbabwe has sent athletes to 10 Olympic games. In 1980 its women's Field Hockey team took gold and in 2004 swimmer Kirsty Coventry took a gold, a silver and a bronze bringing the country's all time medal count to four. During the ongoing 2008 Olympics, three more silvers have been added, so, at the time of this writing, Zimbabwe has won 7 medals in total throughout Olympic history.
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Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, the most gold medals won by an individual in a single Olympic Games in 8 by swimmer Michael Phelps of the United States at the 2008 Games.
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Through the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada has won a total of 405 medals in the Summer and Winter Olympics.Here is the breakdown:Summer GamesGold: 58Silver: 94Bronze: 108Total Summer: 260Winter GamesGold: 52Silver: 45Bronze: 48Total Winter: 145
Mark Spitz, winning 7 medals, then a new record. This record has since been pasted by Alexander Dityatin in 1980 and Michael Phelps in 2004 and 2008; both athletes have won 8 medals in a single Olympics. But Spitz would retain the title of most gold medals until 2008 as Dityatin won 3 gold 5 silver and a bronze in 1980. Phelps won 8 gold medals in a single Olympic game in 2008, which set a new record of most gold medals in a single Olympic.
A Russian gymnast with 18 medals
Number of medals won at the Beijing Olympics: 41 medals
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Michael Phelps
Total Number of gold Medals awarded at the Athens Olympics were 301.
There were 3,000 medals awarded at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Michael Phelps - Swimmer - 8 Gold medals Olympics 2008
London is not a specific NOC (National Olympics Committee) - the number of medals won in the Olympics is counted by individual country. Great Britain won a total of 19 gold medals at the Olympics.
US tops in the maximum number of medals
This number is 18 gold medals.
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Michael Phelps - 8 gold medals