united states has won the most gold medals at one olympics.
united states has won the most gold medals at one olympics.
who has won the most gold medals at one olympics?
united states
michael fred phelps ii (born june 30, 1985) is an american retired competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. phelps also holds the all-time records for olympic gold medals (23), olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and olympic medals in individual events (16). when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 beijing games, phelps broke fellow american swimmer mark spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single olympic games. at the 2004 summer olympics in athens, phelps had already tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single games by winning six gold and two bronze medals. at the 2012 summer olympics in london, phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. this made him the most successful athlete of the games for the fourth olympics in a row.
michael phelps
on 28 july 2012, jin won the gold medal in the men's 10 m air pistol at the 2012 summer olympics. on 5 august, he won the gold medal in the 50m, becoming the first man to successfully defend the 50-metre pistol olympic title. by doing so, jin also became the first man to win the 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol gold medals at the same olympics, and one of the five shooters to win two individual gold medals at one olympics, being the first man to have done so since otto olsen of norway at the 1920 summer olympics. he is one of three shooters to have won three olympic individual gold medals, along with ralf schumann of germany and kim rhode of the united states. he became the first korean athlete to win three individual olympic gold medals, to win four (and five) individual olympic medals, to defend an individual title in the summer olympics (while sim kwon-ho won olympic gold medals for greco-roman wrestling in 1996 and 2000, he won two different weight divisions), to win two individual gold medals at one summer olympic games and to win an individual medal for one event at three consecutive olympic games (kim soo-nyung won individual gold, silver and bronze medals respectively for archery in the 1988, 1992 and 2000 but these olympics were non-consecutive).
jin jong-oh