Most Olympic Medals — Individual Athletes All Time

About This Dataset

Most Olympic Medals — Individual Athletes All Time
The most decorated individual athletes in the history of the Olympic Games. Michael Phelps stands alone as the most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals, including 23 gold.
Analysis

The top three in Total Olympic Medals are Michael Phelps (28), Larisa Latynina (18) and Nikolai Andrianov (15). Michael Phelps tops the list without dominating it, holding 22.8% of what the 8 entities record between them. The other 6 are bunched between 11 and 15 Total Olympic Medals.

Source:  Wikipedia

Key Findings

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Michael Phelps leads in Total Olympic Medals with 28.
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Average Total Olympic Medals: 15  ·  median: 13.
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Gap: Michael Phelps is 2.5× larger than Mark Spitz.

Most Olympic Medals — Individual Athletes All Time

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Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points
8
8 categories  ·  1 year
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Top Value
28
Michael Phelps
Total Olympic Medals · All Time
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1
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All Time
Single year snapshot

Methodology & source

Data source
Wikipedia
Coverage
8 entities · 8 observations
Measure
Total Olympic Medals
Last updated
6 September 2026
Compiled by
The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
  • Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
  • Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Total Olympic Medals · ranked by All Time

✓ 8 sourced
# Category All Time Source
🥇 Michael Phelps 28
🥈 Larisa Latynina 18
🥉 Nikolai Andrianov 15
4 Edoardo Mangiarotti 13
5 Takashi Ono 13
6 Boris Shakhlin 13
7 Paavo Nurmi 12
8 Mark Spitz 11

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