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Great Britain's only stripped medal in Winter Olympic history was an Alpine Skiing bronze at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Alain Baxter tested positive for a banned substance, resulting from Baxter using a branded inhaler product bought in Salt Lake City which, unknown to him, contained different chemicals in the United States ...
Pages in category "Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 606 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
not officially included in the Olympic program: 1900 Paris [a] details Great Britain (GBR) [b] James Jones Claude Buckenham William Gosling Alfred Chalk T. E. Burridge William Quash Richard Turner F. G. Spackman John Nicholas Jack Zealley Henry Haslam France (FRA) [c] Pierre Allemane Louis Bach Alfred Bloch Fernand Canelle Duparc Eugène ...
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 2022) Medal events (in 2022) Total Alpine skiing: Since 1936 19 11 167 168 165 500 Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2) Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2)
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 distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
not included in the Olympic program: 1920 Antwerp details Paul Costello and John B. Kelly Sr. Pietro Annoni and Erminio Dones Gaston Giran and Alfred Plé 1924 Paris details Paul Costello and John B. Kelly Sr. Marc Detton and Jean-Pierre Stock Rudolf Bosshard and Heini Thoma 1928 Amsterdam details Paul Costello