Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, three athletes have won 8 Olympic medals in dressage ...
1) Reimer Klimke - Germany: won 5 medals (5 gold) in team competition and 3 medals (1 gold, 2 bronze) in individual competition.
2) Isabell Werth - Germany: won 4 medals (4 gold) in team competition and 4 medals (1 gold, 3 silver) in individual competition.
3) Anky van Grunsven - Netherlands: won 4 medals (4 silver) in team competition and 4 medals (3 gold, 1 silver) in individual competition.
Werth and van Grunsven competed at the 2008 Games and, should they compete at the 2012 Games in London, will probably go ahead of Klimke (final competition was the 1988 Games) in total dressage medals won.
Michael Phelps of the US has the most olympic gold medals (14 total in 2004 and 2008) and the most medals by a male athlete (16 including his 2 bronze medals).
38 Gold Medals
Canada won 14 gold medals at Vancouver in 2010.
It was the American swimmer Mark Spitz in the 1972 Munich olympic games with 7 gold medals.
Ian Thorpe has won five olympic gold medals (as of the 2008 olympics). He has a total of eleven world championship gold medals.
did olympic boxing get the gold and silver medals in the last olympics? did olympic boxing get the gold and silver medals in the last olympics? did olympic boxing get the gold and silver medals in the last olympics?
No, the Olympic medals are made of actual gold, silver and bronze.
51 gold medals
Olympic gold metals are no longer made of solid gold. They do still contain gold, but are made of mostly silver.
302 events at the 2008 Olympic = 302 Gold Medals
They are gold plated
Anky van Grunsven of Netherlands at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympic Games.
Michael Phelps, swimmer, won the most gold medals in Olympic history.
Michael Phelpes has won 14 olympic gold medals.
gold medals
As of the 2008 Games, Mark Todd has won 2 Olympic gold medal ... in 1984 (Los Angeles) and 1988 (Seoul) in Individual Eventing. He also won bronze in 1988 (Seoul) in Team Eventing and in 2000 (Sydney) in Individual Eventing.
China with 51 gold medals.