This article provides a list of multiple Olympic medalists, i.e. those athletes who have won multiple Olympic medals at either the Summer Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games.
List of Olympic medals over career
This list includes athletes who have won six or more Olympic medals over their sporting career. It includes top-three placings in the 1896 Olympic Games and 1900 Olympic Games, before medals were actually awarded for those placings. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included.
For simplicity, when an athlete has won medals for more than one nation, their entry in this list only mentions the last Nation represented. 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. If the tied athletes have exactly the same number of gold, silver and bronze medals, the ranking is given as a tie and the athletes are listed in order first by career years and then alphabetically by surname.
Timeline
This is a progressive list of Olympians that have held the record for most medals won. 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. All record-holders have competed at Summer Games rather than Winter Games.
Medal count
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Date
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Athlete
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Nation
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Sport
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Record medal event
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Earlier medal events
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1
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6 April 1896[1]
|
James Connolly
|
United States
|
Athletics
|
Triple jump G
|
–
|
Alexandre Tuffère
|
France
|
Triple jump S
|
Ioannis Persakis
|
Greece
|
Triple jump B
|
Robert Garrett
|
United States
|
Athletics
|
Discus G
|
Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos
|
Greece
|
Discus S
|
Sotirios Versis
|
Greece
|
Discus B
|
2
|
7 April 1896[1]
|
Robert Garrett
|
United States
|
Athletics
|
Long jump S
|
See above
|
James Connolly
|
United States
|
Long jump B
|
3
|
Robert Garrett
|
United States
|
Athletics
|
Shot put G
|
1896 – 1 G, 2 S
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9 April 1896[1]
|
Carl Schuhmann
|
Germany
|
Gymnastics
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Vault G
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1896 – 1 G, 2 G
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Hermann Weingärtner
|
Germany
|
Vault B
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1896 – 1 G, 2 G
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4
|
Gymnastics
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Pommel horse S
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5
|
Rings S
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6
|
Horizontal bar G
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16 July 1900
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Robert Garrett
|
United States
|
Athletics
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Standing triple jump B
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1896 – 1 G, 2 S, 3 G, 4 S 1900 – 5 B
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3 September 1904
|
Ray Ewry
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United States
|
Athletics
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Standing triple jump G
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1900 – 1 G, 2 G, 3 G 1904 – 4 G, 5 G
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7
|
20 July 1908
|
Athletics
|
Standing long jump G
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8
|
23 July 1908
|
Standing high jump G
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29 July 1920
|
Carl Osburn
|
United States
|
Shooting
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Team 300 m / 600 m military rifle, prone G
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1912 – 1 B, 2 S, 3 S, 4 G 1920 – 5 B, 6 S, 7 G
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9
|
30 July 1920
|
300 m military rifle, standing G
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10
|
31 July 1920
|
Team free rifle G
|
11
|
27 June 1924
|
Shooting
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600 m free rifle S
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3 August 1928
|
Paavo Nurmi
|
Finland
|
Athletics
|
5000 m S
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1920 – 1 S, 2 G, 3 G, 4 G 1924 – 5 G, 6 G, 7 G, 8 G, 9 G 1928 – 10 G
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12
|
4 August 1928
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3000 m steeplechase S
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2 September 1960
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Edoardo Mangiarotti
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Italy
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Fencing
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Team foil S
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1936 – 1 G 1948 – 2 S, 3 S, 4 B 1952 – 5 S, 6 S, 7 G, 8 G 1956 – 9 G, 10 G, 11 B
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13
|
9 September 1960
|
Team épée G
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21 October 1964
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Larisa Latynina
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Soviet Union
|
Gymnastics
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Team G
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1956 – 1 G, 2 B, 3 G, 4 G, 5 G, 6 S 1960 – 7 G, 8 G, 9 S, 10 S, 11 B, 12 G
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14
|
All-around S
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15
|
22 October 1964
|
Vault S
|
16
|
Uneven bars B
|
17
|
23 October 1964
|
Balance beam B
|
18
|
Floor exercise G
|
31 July 2012
|
Michael Phelps
|
United States
|
Swimming
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200 m butterfly S
|
2004 – 1 G, 2 B, 3 B, 4 G, 5 G, 6 G, 7 G, 8 G 2008 – 9 G, 10 G, 11 G, 12 G, 13 G, 14 G, 15 G, 16 G 2012 – 17 S
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19
|
4 × 200 m freestyle G
|
20
|
2 August 2012
|
200 m individual medley G
|
21
|
3 August 2012
|
100 m butterfly G
|
22
|
4 August 2012
|
4 × 100 m medley relay G
|
23
|
7 August 2016
|
4 × 100 m freestyle relay G
|
24
|
9 August 2016
|
200 m butterfly G
|
25
|
4 × 200 m freestyle relay G
|
26
|
11 August 2016
|
200 m individual medley G
|
27
|
12 August 2016
|
100 m butterfly S
|
28
|
13 August 2016
|
4 × 100 m medley relay G
|
Legend: G = Gold, S = Silver, B = Bronze
List of most career medals in individual events
This list contains only medals won in individual events, so no relays or team events count for this section.