This is a list of athletes who have won multiple gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
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.
The historical progression of the leading performance(s).
Gold medals | Year | Record duration | Athlete | Nation | Sport(s) | Games | Sex |
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4 | 1896 | 1896–1904 | Carl Schuhmann | Germany | Gymnastics, Wrestling | Summer | M |
1900 | 1900–1904 | Alvin Kraenzlein | United States | Athletics | Summer | M | |
5 | 1904 | 1904–1972 | Anton Heida | United States | Gymnastics | Summer | M |
1920 | 1920–1972 | Nedo Nadi | Italy | Fencing | Summer | M | |
1920 | 1920–1972 | Willis A. Lee | United States | Shooting | Summer | M | |
1924 | 1924–1972 | Paavo Nurmi | Finland | Athletics | Summer | M | |
7 | 1972 | 1972–2008 | Mark Spitz | United States | Swimming | Summer | M |
8 | 2008 | 2008–present | Michael Phelps | United States | Swimming | Summer | M |
The historical progression of the leading performance(s).
Gold medals | Year | Record duration | Athlete | Nation | Sport(s) | Games | Sex |
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4 | 1900 | 1900–1980 | Alvin Kraenzlein | United States | Athletics | Summer | M |
1904 | 1904–1980 | Anton Heida | United States | Gymnastics | Summer | M | |
1904 | 1904–1980 | Marcus Hurley | United States | Cycling | Summer | M | |
1960 | 1960–1980 | Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | Gymnastics | Summer | M | |
1964 | 1964–1980 | Lidia Skoblikova | Soviet Union | Speed skating | Winter | F | |
1968 | 1968–1980 | Věra Čáslavská | Czechoslovakia | Gymnastics | Summer | F | |
1972 | 1972–1980 | Mark Spitz | United States | Swimming | Summer | M | |
1976 | 1976–1980 | Nikolai Andrianov | Soviet Union | Gymnastics | Summer | M | |
5 | 1980 | 1980–present | Eric Heiden | United States | Speed skating | Winter | M |
1992 | 1992–present | Vitaly Scherbo | Unified Team | Gymnastics | Summer | M | |
2008 | 2008–present | Michael Phelps | United States | Swimming | Summer | M |
This article includes lists of all Olympic medalists since 1896, organized by each Olympic sport or discipline, and also by Olympiad.
Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960, 1964 and 1968, and won a total of six gold medals, a record she shares with Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst. She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Winter Olympics and the first to earn four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games. She was the most successful athlete at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1960 Games with her compatriot Yevgeny Grishin.
Donald Arthur Schollander is an American former competition swimmer, five-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events. He won a total of five gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. With four gold medals, he was the most successful athlete at the 1964 Olympics.
John Phillips Naber is an American former competition swimmer, five-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in multiple events.
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2022, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games. The IOC itself does not publish all-time tables, and publishes unofficial tables only per single Games. This table was thus compiled by adding up single entries from the IOC database.
Jeffrey Norman Rouse is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events.
Michael Jay Burton is an American swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two freestyle distance events.
Stephen Edward Clark is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Ethelda Marguerite Bleibtrey, also known by her married name Ethelda Schlatke, was an American competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in multiple events.
An all-time medal table for all Paralympic Games from 1960 to 2020. The International Paralympic Committee does not publish all-time tables, and publishes unofficial tables only per single Games. This table was thus compiled by adding up single entries from the IPC database. This medal table also includes the medals won on the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intelectualy Disabled,held in Madrid,who also organized by then International Coordenation Committee (ICC) and same Organzing Committee (COOB'92)who made the gestion of the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona and also part of same event.But the results are not on the International Paralympic Committee 's (IPC) database.
China first competed at the Paralympic Games in 1984, at the Summer Games in New York City, United States and Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom. Since the 2004 Athens Games, China has topped the medal table with more gold medals, more silver medals and more medals overall than any other nation at every Summer Paralympics.
Australia has participated officially in every Paralympic Games since its inauguration in 1960 except for the 1976 Winter Paralympics.
Canada has participated eleven times in the Summer Paralympic Games and in all Winter Paralympic Games. They first competed at the Summer Games in 1968 and the Winter Games in 1976.
Germany (GER) participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, where it sent a delegation of nine athletes. The country, since 1949 officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), was until 1990 also called West Germany while the separate East German Democratic Republic (GDR) existed, which was recognized by the IOC only after 1964. East German athletes, however, participated in the Paralympics for the first and last time in 1984. Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, athletes from all of Germany compete simply as Germany (GER) again.