2006-12-03 17:42:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Olympics
Nikolai Andrianov holds the record for most medals won by a man (15 medals total). Larysa Latynina holds the record for the most medals won by a woman (18 medals total).
2006-12-03 17:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by sweetheart_2104 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tough question with not enough detail to it. Do you mean which country or which individual? Gold medal only or all medals combined? Winter olympics or Summer olympics or all olympic competitons in history? The simple practice of awarding medals didn't even begin until 1904 but the olympics go back to ancient Greece. Prior to that they assigned places like first place, second, place etc. So even knowing the most medals won would not indicate the winningest person or nation.
2006-12-03 18:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by Robert P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Larisa Siemjonovna Latynina of SOVIET UNION has won the most medal in the Summer Olympics history, winning 18 medals in total from 1956 to 1964 (9 golds, 5 silver & 4 bronze), all of which she won in artistic gymnastics event.
list of Olympic medals won by Larisa Latynina:
1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games
Gold - Team competition
Gold - All-around
Gold - Vault
Gold - Floor exercise
Silver - Uneven bars
Bronze - Team, portable apparatus
1960 Rome Summer Olympic Games
Gold - Team competition
Gold - All-around
Gold - Floor exercise
Silver - Uneven bars
Silver - Balance beam
Bronze - Vault
1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games
Gold - Team competition
Gold - Floor exercise
Silver - All-around
Silver - Vault
Bronze - Uneven bars
Bronze - Balance beam
2006-12-06 21:55:06 · answer #3 · answered by foongwk140804 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kurt Angle...HAHAHA
2006-12-03 17:52:18 · answer #4 · answered by x_athymia_x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely not you and me! might be RONALDINHO hAHAHA
2006-12-03 17:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by Nandu 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋