Most Decorated Gymnasts in Olympic History
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Larisa Latynina leads in Olympic Gymnastics Medals with 18.
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Average Olympic Gymnastics Medals: 12.63 · median: 12.
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Gap: Larisa Latynina is 2× larger than Nadia Comaneci.
About This Dataset
Most Decorated Gymnasts in Olympic History
Gymnasts with the most combined medals across all Olympic Games. Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union held the record for the most Olympic medals by any athlete for over 48 years before Michael Phelps surpassed her total in 2012 — her 18 medals remain the all-time gymnastics record.
Analysis
Larisa Latynina (18), Nikolai Andrianov (15) and Boris Shakhlin (13) take the top three in Olympic Gymnastics Medals. No single entity dominates: the leader, Larisa Latynina, holds 17.8% of the combined total of all 8. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 13 down to 9.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Olympic Gymnastics Medals
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
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- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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