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Lizzy Yarnold is the most successful British athlete at the Winter Olympics, with two gold medals. Duncan Scott is the most prolific athlete at a single Games, winning four medals (1 gold, 3 silver) at the 2020 Olympics. Steve Redgrave is the most consistent British Olympic athlete, winning gold medals at five consecutive Games (1984-2000).
This is a progressive list of Olympians that have held the record for most titles won. It includes titles won in 1896 and 1900, before gold medals were awarded for first place. All record-holders have competed at Summer Games rather than Winter Games.
They are also the first British team to have defended an Olympic relay title in swimming or athletics. [82] This was also Scott's seventh Olympic medal, which made him Britain's 3rd most decorated Olympian. [83] Scott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to swimming. [84]
He later took home three different medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for three different events, and in London in 2012, he won two gold medals, making him Britain's most decorated Olympian ...
He won a gold medal at four successive Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016, and held the record as Great Britain's most decorated Olympian with 8 medals until Jason Kenny won his 9th in 2021. He is the only rider to win both the Tour de France and Olympic Gold in the same year, winning them a week apart in 2012. [4]
Swimmer Duncan Scott is appointed an OBE after becoming Scotland's most decorated Olympian with eight medals, including two in Paris. Paralympic swimmers Tully Kearney and Alice Tai also become ...
Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history with 28 medals. Michael Phelps. Lee Jin-man/AP. Phelps competed in five Olympics between 2000 and 2016 as a swimmer on the US team.
With six Olympic medals, including three gold medals, Dujardin is Britain's joint most decorated female Olympian of all time, tied with cyclist Laura Kenny. [ 5 ] On 23 July 2024, Dujardin pulled out of the 2024 Summer Olympics after a video surfaced of her "excessively" whipping a horse during training.