which athlete has won the most olympic medals?
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American swimmer Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian, having won 28 medals in both individual and team events (23 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze). Has also won more individual events than any other Olympian, with 16 medals (13 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze).
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Most swimming Olympic medals won, men (single games) Michael Phelps (USA) holds the record for the most medals won in the pool at a single Olympics,…
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Giacomo Agostini, with 15 victories, has won the most world championships. Ángel Nieto is second with 13 world championships and Valentino Rossi, Mike Hailwood and Carlo Ubbiali are third with 9 world championships.
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Ian Thorpe is Australia's most successful Olympian of all time with a total of nine medals, (five gold, three silver and one bronze medal) from Sydney and Athens combined.
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Football at the Summer Olympics, commonly known as football or soccer, has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 and 1932.
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China has always led the world in a large number of athletic events, and in so doing has also managed to rank second in the world in terms of setting world records in the sport of weightlifting. The country has earned a total of 189 titles in the form of IWF World Weightlifting Championships and Olympic Gold Medals.
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The most Olympic gold medals won by an individual competitor in boxing is three, by Laszlo Papp (Hungary) in 1948-56, Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba) in 1972-80, and Felix Savon (Cuba) in 1992-2000.
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But when it comes to predicting athletic prowess, geography can be surprising. Iceland is certainly not the only nation among the 92 competing at the Pyeongchang Olympics to have never won a winter medal. More than 50 countries that are competing at the Pyeongchang Games have never won a medal.
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Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway is the most-decorated Olympic alpine skier with eight medals (four gold, two silver, two bronze).
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The 2020 Summer Olympics will award medals across 339 events, representing 33 different sports. Five are new sports entirely (baseball/softball, skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate), while others — like basketball — see the inclusion of new events within the discipline.
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Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins has the most overall medals by a British Olympian (and thus often referred to in the media as the "most decorated British Olympian") with eight.
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Norway finished with the most medals of any of the 92 countries to compete, with Germany coming in second with 31 medals and Canada taking third with 29. Despite a lackluster start, the United States finished fourth in the medal count with 23 — nine of which were gold.
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Michael Phelps: the most decorated Olympian, oldest man at 31 to win an individual gold, winner of 23 gold medals, and consumer of 12,000 calories a day. 12,000 calories.
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The United States won the highest number of gold medals and the most medals in total, with China dropping to second place on the medals table after unprecedented dominance at their home Olympics in Beijing four years ago.
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The United States leads the world by hosting 8 Olympic Games including 4 Summer Olympics and 4 Winter Olympics (1904, 1932, 1984, 1996, 1932, 1960, 1980, 2002).