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Athletes With the Most Olympic Medals Quiz

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  1. Michael Phelps 28 medals
    Won eight golds at Beijing 2008, breaking Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven at one Games.
  2. Larisa Latynina 18 medals
    Competed at the 1958 World Championships while about four months pregnant, keeping it from her coaches.
  3. Marit Bjørgen 15 medals
    Won five medals at PyeongChang 2018, about two years after giving birth to her son.
  4. Nikolai Andrianov 15 medals
    Won seven medals at Montreal 1976, four of them gold.
  5. Katie Ledecky 14 medals
    Won the 800m freestyle at four straight Olympics, from London 2012 to Paris 2024.
  6. Isabell Werth 14 medals
    Won dressage team gold at all seven Olympics she rode in, from 1992 to 2024.
  7. Ole Einar Bjørndalen 14 medals
    Married Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva in 2016; they later coached China's biathlon team.
  8. Emma McKeon 14 medals
    Won seven medals at Tokyo 2020, tying the record for a woman at a single Olympics.
  9. Arianna Fontana 14 medals
    Won her first Olympic medal in short track at Turin 2006, aged just 15.
  10. Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 13 medals
    Won all six men's cross-country skiing events at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
  11. Boris Shakhlin 13 medals
    Retired from gymnastics at 35 after suffering a heart attack.
  12. Edoardo Mangiarotti 13 medals
    Was a natural right-hander, but his fencing-master father trained him to fence left-handed.
  13. Ireen Wüst 13 medals
    Became the first athlete to win individual gold medals at five different Olympics.
  14. Takashi Ono 13 medals
    Recited the Olympic Oath for all athletes at the 1964 Tokyo opening ceremony.
  15. Paavo Nurmi 12 medals
    Won the 1500m and 5000m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, taking both golds in under two hours.
  16. Birgit Fischer 12 medals
    Was both the youngest and oldest Olympic canoeing champion ever, at ages 18 and 42.
  17. Bjørn Dæhlie 12 medals
    His career ended after a roller skiing accident in 1999 left him with a back injury.
  18. Jenny Thompson 12 medals
    Earned a medical degree from Columbia in 2006 and became an anesthesiologist.
  19. Sawao Kato 12 medals
    Won the gymnastics all-around title at both Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972.
  20. Ryan Lochte 12 medals
    Sparked an international scandal at Rio 2016 by claiming he had been robbed at gunpoint.
  21. Dara Torres 12 medals
    Made the U.S. Olympic swim team at 41, the oldest swimmer ever to do so.
  22. Alexei Nemov 12 medals
    Won both the all-around and high bar golds at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
  23. Natalie Coughlin 12 medals
    Became the first American woman to win six medals at one Olympics, at Beijing 2008.
  24. Mark Spitz 11 medals
    Set 35 world records in his swimming career, two of them unofficial or in trials.
  25. Matt Biondi 11 medals
    Won seven medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
  26. Věra Čáslavská 11 medals
    Looked down and away during the Soviet anthem at the 1968 Games to protest the invasion of her country.
  27. Allyson Felix 11 medals
    Launched her own footwear brand, Saysh, after leaving Nike over its maternity policy.
  28. Viktor Chukarin 11 medals
    Survived 17 prisoner-of-war camps in World War II, weighing just 40 kg when freed.
  29. Simone Biles 11 medals
    Won the Olympic all-around gold eight years apart, at Rio 2016 and Paris 2024.
  30. Carl Osburn 11 medals
    Was a U.S. Navy officer who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1906.

Source: Wikipedia: List of multiple Olympic medalists (List of Olympic medals over career) · as of 2026-10

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