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Most Olympic Gold Medals Ever  
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These are the Olympic athletes with the most gold medals (combined Winter and Summer and male and female):

	14 - Michael Phelps - Swimming
	10 - Raymond Ewry - Track/Field
	9 - Mark Spitz - Swimming
	9 - Carl Lewis - Track/Field
	9 - Paavo Nurmi - Running
	9 - Larissa Latynina - Gymnast
	8 - Jenny Thompson - Swimming
	8 - Bjorn Daehlie, NOR - Cross Country
	8 - Matt Biondi - Swimming
	8 - Birgit Fisher - Rowing
	7 - Nikolay Andrianov - Gymnast
	6 - Vitaly Sherbo - BLR - Gymnastics
	6 - Lydia Skoblikova, USSR - Speed Skating
	6 - Lyubov Egorova, UT/RUS - Cross Country
	6 - Amy Van Dyken - Swimming
	5 - Clas Thunberg, FIN - Speed Skating
	5 - Morris Fisher - Shooting
	5 - Larissa Lazutina, UT/RUS - Cross Country
	5 - Johnny Weissmuller - Swim/Water Polo
	5 - Don Schollander - Swimming
	5 - Anton Heida - Gymnastics
	5 - Willis Lee - Shooting
	5 - Tom Jager - Swimming
	5 - Charles Daniels - Swimming
	5 - Martin Sheridan - Track/Field
	5 - Carl Osburn - Shooting
	5 - Claudia Pechstein, GER - ST Sp. Skating
	5 - Bonnie Blair, USA - Speed Skating
	5 - Eric Heiden, USA - Speed Skating
	5 - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, NOR - Biathlon
	5 - Alfred Lane - Shooting
	5 - Sir Steve Redgrave - Rowing

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Comments: that is why it is a WIKI list... so you can add to it and fix it... your corrections have been made already! Comment by: Pratt You forgot about gymnasts fom USSR: Larissa Latynina - 9, Nikolay Andrianov - 7 ... etc. Go to please to www.olympicgameswinners.com for complete results about all Olympic winners Comment by: igorim You forgot the great Sir Steve Redgrave(UK): He won 5 gold medals in rowing at five successive Olypics: From 1984 at Los Angeles through the 2000 Sydney Olympics!!!Also Birgit Fisher(Germany)won 8 gold medals in canoeing from 1980 Moscow games through the 2004 Athens games. And also rower Sir Matthew Pincent(UK) won 4 gold medals from the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona through the 2004 Athens games. Comment by: veno The list sucks! It doesn`t have Paavo Nurmi, who won 9 olympic gold medals! Comment by: ernie You don't have vitaly sherbo won 6 gold metals in one olympics in Gymnastics. Who put this list together. Not a very good job. Comment by: xmeome