Lists of Olympic medalists

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This article includes lists of all Olympic medalists since 1896, organized by each Olympic sport or discipline, and also by Olympiad.

Table of contents
By sport	Summer (past) • Winter (past)
By Olympiad	Summer • Winter
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[edit] By sport

[edit] Summer Olympic sports

Discipline		Contested	Number of		Medals awarded				Athlete(s) with the most medals
			Olympiads	medal events in 2008	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
	Archery	1900–1912; 1920; since 1972	14	4	58	57	48	163	Hubert Van Innis (BEL) (6-3-0)
	Athletics (men, women)	Since 1896	26	47	886	891	885	2662	Paavo Nurmi (FIN) (9-3-0)
	Badminton	Since 1992	5	5	24	24	28	76	Gao Ling (CHN) (2-1-1)
	Basketball	Since 1936	18	2	26	26	26	78	Teresa Edwards (USA) (4-0-1)
	Boxing	1904; 1908; since 1920	23	11	226	226	389	841	Teófilo Stevenson (CUB) (3-0-0)  Félix Savón (CUB) (3-0-0)  László Papp (HUN) (3-0-0)  Oleg Saitov (RUS) (2-0-1)  Boris Lagutin (URS) (2-0-1)  Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) (0-1-2)  Arnold Vanderlyde (NED) (0-0-3)
	Canoeing (men) (women)	Since 1936	17	16	194	194	194	582	Birgit Fischer (GER) (8-4-0)
	Cycling (men, women)	Since 1896	26	18	206	206	202	614	Leontien van Moorsel (NED) (4-1-1)  Bradley Wiggins (GBR) (3-1-2)  Burton Downing (USA) (2-3-1)
	Diving	Since 1904	24	8	106	106	108	320	Dmitri Sautin (RUS) (2-2-4)
	Equestrian	1900; since 1912	23	6	135	133	133	401	Reiner Klimke (FRG) (7-0-2)
	Fencing (men, women)	Since 1896	26	10	191	191	190	572	Edoardo Mangiarotti (ITA) (6-5-2)
	Field hockey	1908; 1920; since 1928	21	2	29	29	28	86	Leslie Claudius (IND) (3-1-0)  Udham Singh (IND) (3-1-0)  Rashid Abdul (PAK) (2-1-1)
	Football	1900–1928; since 1936	24	2	28	28	29	85
	Gymnastics (men, women)	Since 1896	26	18	330	312	314	956	Larissa Latynina (URS) (9-5-4)
	Handball	1936; since 1972	11	2	20	20	20	60	Andrey Lavrov (RUS) (3-0-1)
	Judo	1964; since 1972	11	14	109	108	218	435	Ryoko Tani (JPN) (2-2-1)
	Modern pentathlon	Since 1912	22	2	36	36	36	108	Pavel Lednyov (URS) (2-2-3)
	Rowing (men. women)	Since 1900	25	14	226	226	216	668	Elisabeta Lipă (ROU) (5-2-1)
	Sailing	1900; since 1908	23	11	165	157	150	472	Torben Grael (BRA) (2-1-2)
	Shooting	1896; 1900; 1908–1924 since 1932	24	15	242	243	242	727	Carl Osburn (USA) (5-4-2)
	Swimming (men, women)	Since 1896	26	34	490	486	491	1467	Michael Phelps (USA) (14-0-2)
	Synchronized swimming	Since 1984	7	2	14	12	13	39	Miho Takeda (JPN) (0-4-1)  Miya Tachibana (JPN) (0-4-1)
	Table tennis	Since 1988	6	4	24	24	28	76	Wang Nan (CHN) (4-1-0)
	Taekwondo	Since 2000	3	8	24	24	32	80	Steven Lopez (USA) (2-0-1)
	Tennis	1896–1924; since 1988	13	4	56	56	71	183	Kitty McKane (GBR)
	Triathlon	Since 2000	3	2	6	6	6	18	Simon Whitfield (CAN) (1-1-0)  Bevan Docherty (NZL) (0-1-1)
	Volleyball	Since 1964	12	4	32	32	32	96	Ana Fernandez (CUB) (3-0-1)  Inna Ryskal (URS) (2-2-0)
	Water polo	1900; since 1908	24	2	28	28	29	85	Dezső Gyarmati (HUN) (3-0-1)
	Weightlifting	1896; 1904; since 1920	23	15	185	181	182	548	Pyrros Dimas (GRE) (3-0-1)  Ronny Weller (GER) (1-2-1)  Ronny Weller (GER) (1-2-1)  Nikolay Pechalov (BUL, CRO) (1-1-2)
	Wrestling (freestyle, Greco-Roman)	1896; since 1904	25	18	373	375	392	1140	Wilfried Dietrich (FRG) (1-2-2)

[edit] Winter Olympic sports

Discipline		Contested	Number of		Medals awarded				Athlete(s) with the most medals
			Olympiads	medal events in 2010	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
	Alpine skiing	Since 1936	16	10	122	125	120	367	Kjetil André Aamodt (NOR) (4-2-2)
	Biathlon	Since 1960	13	10	53	53	53	159	Uschi Disl (GER) (2-4-3)  Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) (5-3-1)
	Bobsleigh	1924–1956; since 1964	20	3	39	37	39	115	Bogdan Musiol (GDR) (1-5-1)
	Cross-country skiing	Since 1924	20	12	134	132	133	399	Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) (8-4-0)
	Curling	1924; since 1998	4	2	7	7	7	21	Mirjam Ott (SUI) (0-2-0)
	Figure skating	Summer: 1908; 1920 Winter: since 1924[A]	22	4	77	75	76	228	Gillis Grafström (SWE) (3-1-0)
	Freestyle skiing	Since 1992	5	6	18	18	18	54	Kari Traa (NOR) (1-1-1)
	Ice hockey	Summer: 1920 Winter: since 1924[B]	21	2	24	24	24	72	Vladislav Tretiak (URS) (3-1-0)  Igor Kravchuk (RUS) (2-1-1)  Jiří Holík (TCH) (0-2-2)
	Luge	Since 1964	12	3	37	35	36	108	Georg Hackl (GER) (3-2-0)
	Nordic combined	Since 1924	20	3	28	28	28	84	Felix Gottwald (AUT) (2-1-3)
	Short track speed skating	Since 1992	5	8	32	32	32	96	Chun Lee-Kyung (KOR) (4-0-1)  Marc Gagnon (CAN) (3-0-2)  Yang Yang (A) (CHN) (2-2-1)  Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) (2-1-2)  Yang Yang (S) (CHN) (0-4-1)  Li Jiajun (CHN) (0-2-3)
	Skeleton	1924; 1948; Since 2002	4	2	6	6	6	18	John Heaton (USA) (0-2-0)  Gregor Stähli (SUI) (0-0-2)
	Ski jumping	Since 1924	20	3	38	39	37	114	Matti Nykänen (FIN) (4-1-0)
	Snowboarding	Since 1998	3	6	14	14	14	42	Philipp Schoch (SUI) (2-0-0)  Karine Ruby (FRA) (1-1-0)  Ross Powers (USA) (1-0-1)  Daniel Kass (USA) (0-2-0)
	Speed skating	Since 1924	20	12	152	155	148	455	Claudia Pechstein (GER) (5-2-2)

^ A. Figure skating was held at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympic games prior to the establishment of the Winter Olympics. 21 medals (seven of each color) were awarded in seven events.
^ B. A men's ice hockey tournament was held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and then added as a Winter Olympics event. Three medals were awarded.

[edit] Past sports

[edit] Summer

Discipline		Contested	Number of Olympiads	Medals awarded
				Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
	Baseball	1992–2008	5	5	5	5	15
	Basque pelota	1900	1	1	1	0	2
	Cricket	1900	1	1	1	0	2
	Croquet	1900	1	3	2	2	7
	Golf	1900-1904	2	4	4	5	13
	Jeu de paume	1908	1	1	1	1	3
	Lacrosse	1904-1908	2	2	2	1	5
	Polo	1900; 1908; 1920; 1924; 1936	5	5	6	5	16
	Rackets	1908	1	2	2	3	7
	Roque	1904	1	1	1	1	3
	Rugby union	1900; 1908; 1920; 1924	4	4	5	1	10
	Softball	1996–2008	4	4	4	4	12
	Tug of war	1900–1920	5	5	5	3	13
	Water motorsports	1908	5	3	0	0	3

[edit] Winter

Discipline		Contested	Number of Olympiads	Medals awarded
				Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
	Military patrol	1924	1	1	1	1	3

[edit] By Olympiad

[edit] Summer Olympic Games

Games	Medal		Host	Number of medal events	Medals awarded				Athlete(s) with the most medals
					Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1896	winners	table	Athens, Greece	43	43	43	36	122	Hermann Weingärtner (GER) (3-2-1)
1900	winners	table	Paris, France	95	90	90	88	268	Irving Baxter (USA) (2-3-0)  Walter Tewksbury (USA) (2-2-1)
1904	winners	table	St. Louis, United States	91	96	92	92	280	Anton Heida (USA) (5-1-0)  George Eyser (USA) (3-2-1)  Burton Downing (USA) (2-3-1)
1908	winners	table	London, United Kingdom	110	110	107	106	323	Henry Taylor (GBR) (3-0-0)  Mel Sheppard (USA) (3-0-0)  Benjamin Jones (GBR) (2-1-0)  Oscar Swahn (SWE) (2-0-1)  Martin Sheridan (USA) (2-0-1)  Josiah Ritchie (GBR) (1-1-1)  Ted Ranken (GBR) (0-3-0)
1912	winners	table	Stockholm, Sweden	102	103	104	103	310	Vilhelm Carlberg (SWE) (3-2-0)
1920	winners	table	Antwerp, Belgium	154	156	145	135	436	Willis Lee (USA) (5-1-1)  Lloyd Spooner (USA) (4-1-2)
1924	winners	table	Paris, France	126	126	127	125	378	Ville Ritola (FIN) (4-2-0)
1928	winners	table	Amsterdam, Netherlands	109	111	109	110	330	Georges Miez (SUI) (3-1-0)  Hermann Hänggi (SUI) (2-1-1)
1932	winners	table	Los Angeles, United States	117	116	116	114	346	István Pelle (HUN) (2-2-0)  Giulio Gaudini (ITA) 0-3-1)  Heikki Savolainen (FIN) (0-1-3)
1936	winners	table	Berlin, Germany	129	130	128	122	380	Konrad Frey (GER) (3-1-2)
1948	winners	table	London, United Kingdom	136	138	135	138	411	Veikko Huhtanen (FIN) (3-1-1)
1952	winners	table	Helsinki, Finland	149	149	152	158	459	Maria Gorokhovskaya (URS) (2-5-0)
1956	winners	table	Melbourne, Australia Stockholm, Sweden[C]	145	153	153	163	469	Ágnes Keleti (HUN) (4-2-0)  Larissa Latynina (URS) (4-1-1)
1960	winners	table	Rome, Italy	150	152	149	160	461	Boris Shakhlin (URS) (4-2-1)
1964	winners	table	Tokyo, Japan	163	163	167	174	504	Larissa Latynina (URS) (2-2-2)
1968	winners	table	Mexico City, Mexico	172	174	170	183	527	Mikhail Voronin (URS) (2-4-1)
1972	winners	table	Munich, West Germany	195	195	195	210	600	Mark Spitz (USA) (7-0-0)
1976	winners	table	Montreal, Canada	198	198	199	216	613	Nikolai Andrianov (URS) (4-2-1)
1980	winners	table	Moscow, Soviet Union	203	204	204	223	631	Alexander Dityatin (URS) (3-4-1)
1984	winners	table	Los Angeles, United States	221	225	218	242	685	Li Ning (CHN) (3-2-1)
1988	winners	table	Seoul, South Korea	237	241	234	264	739	Matt Biondi (USA) (5-1-1)
1992	winners	table	Barcelona, Spain	257	260	257	298	815	Vitaly Scherbo (EUN) (6-0-0)
1996	winners	table	Atlanta, United States	271	271	273	298	842	Alexei Nemov (RUS) (2-1-3)
2000	winners	table	Sydney, Australia	300	297	299	325	921	Alexei Nemov (RUS) (2-1-3)
2004	winners	table	Athens, Greece	301	301	301	327	929	Michael Phelps (USA) (6-0-2)
2008	winners	table	Beijing, China	302	302	303	353	958	Michael Phelps (USA) (8-0-0)

^ C. Due to Australian quarantine laws, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm several months before the rest of the 1956 Games in Melbourne.

[edit] Winter Olympic Games

Games	Medal		Host	Number of medal events	Medals awarded				Athlete(s) with the most medals
					Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1924	winners	table	Chamonix, France	16	16	16	17	49	Clas Thunberg (FIN) (3-1-1)  Roald Larsen (NOR) (0-2-3)
1928	winners	table	St. Moritz, Switzerland	14	14	12	15	41	Bernt Evensen (NOR) (1-1-1)
1932	winners	table	Lake Placid, United States	14	14	14	14	42	Irving Jaffee (USA) (2-0-0)  Jack Shea (USA) (2-0-0)  Veli Saarinen (FIN) (1-0-1)  Alexander Hurd (CAN) (0-1-1)  Willy Logan (CAN) (0-0-2)
1936	winners	table	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	17	17	17	17	51	Ivar Ballangrud (NOR) (3-1-0)
1948	winners	table	St. Moritz, Switzerland	22	22	24	22	68	Henri Oreiller (FRA) (2-0-1)
1952	winners	table	Oslo, Norway	22	22	22	23	67	Hjalmar Andersen (NOR) (3-0-0)  Annemarie Buchner (GER) (0-1-2)
1956	winners	table	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	24	25	23	24	72	Sixten Jernberg (SWE) (1-2-1)
1960	winners	table	Squaw Valley, United States	27	28	26	27	81	Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) (1-1-1)
1964	winners	table	Innsbruck, Austria	34	34	38	31	103	Lidiya Skoblikova (URS) (4-0-0)
1968	winners	table	Grenoble, France	35	35	39	32	106	Jean-Claude Killy (FRA) (3-0-0)  Toini Gustafsson (SWE) (2-1-0)  Eero Mäntyranta (FIN) (0-1-2)
1972	winners	table	Sapporo, Japan	35	36	34	35	105	Galina Kulakova (URS) (3-0-0)  Ard Schenk (NED) (3-0-0)  Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS) (2-0-1)  Pål Tyldum (NOR) (1-2-0)  Marjatta Kajosmaa (FIN) (0-2-1)  Atje Keulen-Deelstra (NED) (0-1-2)
1976	winners	table	Innsbruck, Austria	37	37	37	37	111	Tatyana Averina (URS) (2-0-2)
1980	winners	table	Lake Placid, United States	38	38	39	38	115	Eric Heiden (USA) (5-0-0)
1984	winners	table	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia	39	39	39	39	117	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (FIN) (3-0-1)  Karin Enke (GDR) (2-2-0)  Gunde Svan (SWE) (2-1-1)
1988	winners	table	Calgary, Canada	46	46	46	46	138	Yvonne van Gennip (NED) (3-0-0)  Matti Nykänen (FIN) (3-0-0)  Tamara Tikhonova (URS) (2-1-0)  Valery Medvedtsev (URS) (1-2-0)  Marjo Matikainen (FIN) (1-0-2)  Karin Enke (GDR) (0-2-1)  Andrea Ehrig (GDR) (0-2-1)  Vladimir Smirnov (URS) (0-2-1)
1992	winners	table	Albertville, France	57	57	58	56	171	Lyubov Yegorova (EUN) (3-2-0)  Yelena Välbe (EUN) (1-0-4)
1994	winners	table	Lillehammer, Norway	61	61	61	61	183	Manuela Di Centa (ITA) (2-2-1)
1998	winners	table	Nagano, Japan	68	69	68	68	205	Larisa Lazutina (RUS) (3-1-1)
2002	winners	table	Salt Lake City, United States	78	80	76	78	234	Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) (4-0-0)  Janica Kostelić (CRO) (3-1-0)
2006	winners	table	Turin, Italy	84	84	84	84	252	Cindy Klassen (CAN) (1-2-2)

[edit] See also

• List of Olympic medalists in art competitions
• List of prizes, medals, and awards
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists

[edit] References

General

• International Olympic Committee (January 2009). Factsheet: Records and medals Games of the Olympiad. Press release. http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_847.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-02-23. 
• International Olympic Committee (February 2008). Factsheet: Records and medals at the Olympic Winter Games. Press release. http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_1136.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-02-23. 
• "Results database". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp. Retrieved on 2009-02-23. 
• "Olympic sports index". sports-reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/sports/. Retrieved on 2009-02-23. 
• "Summer games index". sports-reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/. Retrieved on 2009-02-26. 
• "Winter games index". sports-reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/. Retrieved on 2009-02-23. 

Specific

[edit] External links

• Olympic Review and Revue Olympique. LA84 Foundation

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