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This is a list of most Olympic medals won at a single Olympic Games. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings. Only Olympians with four or more medals at one Games are included below.
This is a list of most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings.
This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalists, listing people who have won four or more Olympic gold medals. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. (If they were, Ray Ewry would be second on the list with 10 gold.) It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings.
At the end of his career, he earned eight gold medals, three silver medals, and one bronze medal. Dara Torres also earned 12 Olympic medals over the course of her swimming career. Dara Torres.
The iconic medal ceremony caps each event at the Olympic Games. Here's who takes the crown for most medals in both the Summer and Winter Games.
Eddie Eagan became the first person to win a medal in the Winter Olympics and in the Summer Olympics in different events. He is the only Summer and Winter medalist to win gold medals in different events. Christa Luding-Rothenburger is the only person to win medals at the Winter and Summer Games in the same year.
Only Olympians with four or more medals in one event are included. If a person has contested for several nations, only the most recent nation is mentioned. In those instances where two or more athletes have the same number of total medals, the first tiebreaker is the number of gold medals, followed by the number of silver medals.
Of those medals, 40 are gold, which ties Team USA with China for most gold medals. China trailed the U.S. with 91 medals total, and Great Britain came in third with 65 medals.