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Elite athletes in most sports, such as track and field, weightlifting, cycling, rowing, swimming, skiing, are less likely to have done intensive training at a young age than the near-elite athletes. [1] NCAA Division I athletes tended to play multiple sports in high school, and only one in six specialized in a single sport before the age of 12 ...
There are 26 athletes that have at least one Olympic appearance in art competitions, but this sport and its results are not included on the official Olympic website. [citation needed] The most common combinations of sports are road cycling/track cycling (406), swimming/water polo (156) and marathon swimming/swimming (52). [citation needed]
The next 47 athletes have an uncertain status: they haven't participated at one (or more) of 2 or more sports but their appearance in the Olympic official website is considered official. Some of them have an appearance in an unofficial Olympic sport or in a demonstrative sport. Some of them have been already included in the list above.
Athlete Sex Period Sports Tot. 1 Johnny Weissmuller: M 1924–1928 Swimming • Water polo: 5 0 1 6 2 Paul Radmilovic: M 1908–1920 Swimming • Water polo: 4 0 0 4 Carl Schuhmann: M 1896 Gymnastics • Wrestling: 4 0 0 4 4 Johan Grøttumsbråten: M 1924–1932 Cross-country skiing • Nordic combined: 3 1 2 6 5 / / Anfisa Reztsova: F 1988–1994
Canadian Ian Millar in a 2007 picture. At London 2012 he participated in a record 10th Olympics. Only a small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction competes in multiple Games. 949 athletes [1] (648 men [2] and 301 women [3]) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024, but excluding the 1906 Intercalated ...
The Years listed for each athlete only include the Games in which they won medals. More detailed information is provided in the linked articles for the individual athletes. In cases 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.
The Russian athlete Nikolai Panin is unique in having competed in both a summer sport (shooting in 1912) and a winter sport (figure skating in 1908) but only competing at the Summer Olympics. [2] Among these athletes, the most-occurring combination is bobsledding and athletics (also known as track and field), followed by cycling and speed ...
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.)