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Gillis Grafström became the first person to win a medal in the same event in Summer and Winter Olympics, winning figure skating golds at the 1920 Olympics and at the first Winter Olympics in 1924. Eddie Eagan became the first person to win a medal in the Winter Olympics and in the Summer Olympics in different events.
This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalists, listing people who have won four or more Olympic gold medals. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. (If they were, Ray Ewry would be second on the list with 10 gold.) It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings.
Discipline (link to medalists list) Contested Number of Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold–silver–bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Olympics (up to conclusion of 2024) Medal events (in 2024) Total Archery: 1900–1908; 1920; since 1972 18 5 76 74 66 216 Hubert van Innis (6–3–0)
Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete in history. Here are 19 other athletes who earned multiple medals at the summer and winter games.
The table does not count revoked medals (e.g., due to doping). A total of 162 current and historical NOCs have earned at least one medal. Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account.
The iconic medal ceremony caps each event at the Olympic Games. Here's who takes the crown for most medals in both the Summer and Winter Games.
Only Olympians with four or more medals in one event are included. If a person has contested for several nations, only the most recent nation is mentioned. In those instances where two or more athletes have the same number of total medals, the first tiebreaker is the number of gold medals, followed by the number of silver medals.
List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists; List of multiple Olympic medalists; List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games; List of multiple Olympic medalists in one event; List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games; List of Olympians who won medals in the Summer and Winter Games