Danyon Loader.
Bob Mathias of the United States.
The last summer Olympics were in Beijing, China. Mexico won 3 medals at that Olympic; two golds and one bronze.
There has been at least one tie for an Olympic gold medal. The 2000 Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, had a tie in the men's 50M freestyle swimming event between Gary Hall, Jr. (USA) and Anthony Ervin (USA). Each swimmer had a time of 21.98 seconds, and each swimmer received a gold medal. There was no silver medal awarded for that event, only two gold and one bronze.
Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice led all women with three gold medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing. Women that won two gold medals include 1) China table tennis player Zhang Yining diver Guo Jingjing diver Chen Ruolin gymnast Xe Kexin 2) Great Britain swimmer Rebecca Adlington 3) Germany swimmer Britta Steffen 4) Australia swimmer Libby Trickett swimmer Leisel Jones 5) Kenya long distance runner Trunesh Dibaba
The most medals won at an Olympic Games by an Australian athlete is 5 and was done by swimmer Ian Thorpe at the 2000 Games in Sydney (3 gold, 2 silver) and swimmer Shane Gould at the 1972 Games in Munich (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze).
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Danyon Loader in men's 200 meter freestyle and 400 meter freestyle.
Bob Mathias of the United States.
Rebecca Adlington won two golds at the 2008 Olympics in swimming.
Usain Bolt has 6 Olympic gold medals. He also won 8 golds and two silvers in the World Championships.
An olympic sized pool is 50 metres. If it is a 4x100 Relay one swimmer will swim 2 laps. If each swimmer does two laps and there is 4 of them, 8 laps will have been swum.
Micheal Phelps...world's best male butterflyer Natalie Coughlin...World's best female backstroker Kitajima...World's fastest Japanese swimmer Ryan Lochte...World's hottest swimmer when his hair is short 8p Missy Franklin...World's fastest 15 year old
Ben Ainslie (GBR) is the most decorated olympic sailor of all time with 1 silver 4 gold medals. Three of the golds were in the finn class, while the other two were won in the laser dingy.
The last summer Olympics were in Beijing, China. Mexico won 3 medals at that Olympic; two golds and one bronze.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row. It was actually his worst performance of the 3 Olympics. Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time with 22 medals and he also has the record for Olympic gold medals with 18
Yes, Libby Trickett has two daughters named Poppy and Edwina.
It depends on what kind of disasters you're referring to. There were two Olympic games in recent memory that had fatal disasters. At the 1972 Summer Olympic games in Munich, West Germany, 11 Israeli athletes were taken hostage and eventually killed. At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, there was a terrorist bombing at the Olympic Park that killed two people.