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We need to revise the timeline box so that it is in accord with the gold medal box. The table would look something like this: Remember ( talk) 12:55, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Total medals | Date | Athlete | Nation | Sport | Record medal event | Earlier medal events | Gender |
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1 | 1896-04-06 | James Connolly | ![]() |
Athletics | Triple jump | - | M |
I don't think it's worth adding in the overall ranks until the list is more complete as they will not be accurate. Basement12 ( talk) 13:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps we should limit the chart to those olympians that have 5 or more medals. Otherwise, I am afraid that table will get too big. What do others think? Remember ( talk) 14:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Below is the medal listings we have for athletes with 6-3 medals. Once this is complete we can incorporate the results into the main table. Remember ( talk) 00:56, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
7- Libby Trickett (nee Lenton) AUS Swimming - 4-1-2 — Preceding
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101.116.165.193 (
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03:34, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
If Michael Phelps were from Portugal or another small country he would have many fewer medals, because so many of his medals are from relays where he needed his comrades, and it is much easier to win relays if your country is big and has many other top athletes in the same sport. The same is true for Larissa Latynina and most of the others in this list. I think this obvious advantage for people from the big countries at least must be mentioned. Olympicdreams ( talk) 21:41, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I suggest to remove the rankings and order the athletes in an unbiased way, say, alphabetically. For the moment I just added: The ranking is biased towards nations with many top athletes in certain sports, since the athletes with the highest medal counts profit from relays and other team competitions typically won by dominant nations. Olympicdreams ( talk) 21:32, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't we have an extra table for the athletes with the most individual medals, to eliminate the bias towards big nations? Well, I guess in the individual medal count Larissa Latynina would still be far ahead of all the others, despite being from a big nation.... Olympicdreams ( talk) 23:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Michael Phelps is listed as 1st and 2nd place. That is impossible -- 67.86.119.65 ( talk) 01:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Merlene Ottey is listed as having eight medals, but the IOC awarded her a ninth medal in Dec 2009 in the wake of Marion Jones' disqualification for the 2000 100m. This has yet to be reflected in this list. I'd make the edit myself, but that first column is waaaay too complicated to be dealt with.-- Crabbylucy ( talk) 19:53, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Because the original article size had reached 78 kB, and in order to be consistent with the splitting of the sister-article List of multiple Olympic gold medalists, this article has been split. The present article remains, covering career total medals, plus a timeline and an individual medal section, and some information on medalists in different disciplines. The newly created List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games is similar but covers single Olympic Games only. The remainder, which didn't fit in either of these two articles, has been moved to List of multiple Olympic medalists in one event. Gap9551 ( talk) 15:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
A quick look at early competitors got two more pre-WWI competitors with medals in two sports,
Edwin Flack
Australia (athletics and tennis) and
Otto Herschmann
Austria (swimming and fencing) and there may well be more
Hugo999 (
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21:50, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
According to BBC Larisa Latynina has 9 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze. This should be corrected on the list. Puntori ( talk) 00:29, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
The list would be much better if it's sorted by goldmedals, then silver, then bronze. E.g. the 9 goldmedals of Nurmi should be rated stronger than the 7 goldmedals of Andrianov. Please think about it. -- 178.197.225.104 ( talk) 16:43, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
I think the "career years" column is only meant to include the years of the Olympics, not the whole sporting career of the individual athlete. This should be clarified somewhere in the page.
Also, for almost all athletes which are still active, the career is listed as ending in 2012 (last summer Olympics) or 2014 (winter). This is consistent with the above definition, because an athlete might still be active but there is no guarantee he'll win another medal in 2016 (or 2018 for winter). However, someone added "-present" to Michael Phelps. While I can see the point, I think the same standard should be applied to all entries. If there will be a consensus on pointing out still active athletes, such a sign will have to be added to all of them.
-- Lou Crazy ( talk) 10:59, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Says 22 instead of 21 for Michael Phelps. Not there yet but hopefully. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.69.250 ( talk) 03:26, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
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Simone Biles is on this list under 8 medals. She only has 6 as of 7/30/21 and as such should not be on here yet. This may change in the next week.
I think Jesse Owen's should be added to the list. 2601:644:8A80:4090:FD8A:50A0:849:9F20 ( talk) 02:28, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
The fact that this list consists of people who have won six or more Olympic medals needs to be emphasized as some noted multiple-time gold medalists do not qualify for the list; Jesse Owens, Sue Bird, etc. 67.150.117.113 ( talk) 04:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)