8 by Michael Phelps in 2008.
The ladies' single (figure skating) world record was the the most significant record broken at the 2010 Olympic games. Kim Yuna of South Korea broken the then world record in the short program, free skate, and total.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, no British athlete has won 8 Olympic gold medals. The most Olympic gold medals a British athlete has won is 5 by rower Steve Redgrave. Redgrave also won 9 World Championship gold medals and 3 Commonwealth Games gold medals.
Canada won 14 gold medals in the 2010 Olympics and it is the world record. WOO go Canada!
Canada won 26 medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics: 14 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
No person won 14 medals. Micheal Phelps got the world record of 8 gold medals. These medals add to his other medals to get a total of 16 Olympic medals.
PCH=A world record holder?
Mark Spitz. Not only did he set a record for the most gold medals in any olympiad, he also set a new world's record in each of the events he won.
Why is Michael Phelps famous?!?! Where were you during the 2008 Summer Olympics?!?! He is the most decorated Olympian because he won 8 gold medals and broke 7 world records in Beijing. He now has about 16 career medals.
The fastest swimmer in the Olympics is Michael Phelps from Baltimore, Maryland and he broke the world record of 7 gold medals by earning 8.
Due to the world war's nobody won medals the olympics were cancelled in 1916,1940 and 1944.
The American swimmer, Mark Spitz, has the record of most gold medals a single Olympiad, with seven gold medals. This achievement was made in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where he won, and set a new world record, in each of the following events: 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, 4 x 100 m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle and the 4 x 100 m medley.
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