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.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
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.
Data Sources & References
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