From 1896 to 2018 inclusive, Great Britain & NI has won 851 medals at the Summer Olympic Games, and another 32 at the Winter Olympic Games. Sir Chris Hoy holds the record for gold medals in different events, having reached the top step in four different disciplines – men's kilo, men's team sprint, men's match sprint and men's kierin. 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This is a list of people who have won three or more Olympic gold medals for Great Britain. Great Britain was the third most successful nation in swimming in 2008, with 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes, with Rebecca Adlington winning two of these, making her the most successful female British swimmer in 100 years.[25]. Who has the most Olympic gold medals? Great Britain hosted the only Olympic jeu de paume tournament in 1908. Phelps has the most gold medals of all time at 23, most total medals ever at 28 and the most medals in individual events with 16. The most recent gold medal was won by Adam Peaty in both the 100m Breaststroke in Rio 2016. No other rider has successfully defended a Gold Medal. Britain took a bronze medal in the first Olympic rowing competition, in 1900. Athletes have won medals in Winter Olympics only. Great Britain was one of four nations to play golf at the first Olympic golf events in 1900. Phelps even broke a 2168-year old Olympic record held by Leonidas of Rhodes in 2016 when he won his 13th gold medal in an individual event, which gave him the most wins in individual Olympic events. The figures from 1972 do not count towards the total as badminton was a demonstration sport. Prior to the 2014 Games all Britain's Winter Olympic medals had been won in sports performed on ice. Sir Steve Redgrave is the only British Olympian to win a gold medal in five consecutive Olympic Games, winning his first in 1984 Los Angeles and last in 2000 Sydney. Here is the list of the top 10 athletes (males and females) with the most medals in total (includes all gold, silver and bronze medals won), from all summer Olympic Games (including 2016). Alongside five time gold medalist Redgrave, Grainger, Ainslie, Wiggins and Jack Beresford are the only British Olympians to win medals of any colour in five successive Games. Great Britain's Olympic lacrosse debut was in 1908. Gold: Italy has won 246 gold medals in the Olympics - in total 437 Italian athletes have won a gold medal. This table excludes seven medals – one gold, two silver, and four bronze – awarded in the 1908 and 1920 figure skating events. Great Britain made its Olympic boxing debut in 1908. She first appeared on the international scene as a 14-year-old in 1987, when she won the 50-meter freestyle and placed third in the 100-meter … Prior to participating, as host nation, in the 2012 volleyball tournaments, Great Britain had never competed in Olympic volleyball with the exception of the women's team participating in the inaugural Beach volleyball tournament in 1996. Also, Great Britain is not a member of FIFA and its athletes participate in international football competitions as members of the national teams of the home nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), none of which have National Olympic Committees. Although Great Britain has won 19 judo medals, none have been gold. It has more silver and bronze medal that puts the total tally in its favor. Snowboarder Jenny Jones became the first British athlete to win a medal on snow in the 90 years of the winter games when she won a bronze medal in the women's slopestyle event. For simplicity, when an athlete has won medals for more than one nation, only the last nation he or she represented is mentioned here. Other records include being the only woman to win an all-around medal in a minimum of three Olympics. Latynina is the most successful female athlete of all time based on gold medals as she has nine to her name and has won medals in 18 of the 19 Olympic gymnastics events she has competed in. During the Athen 2004 Summer Olympics, Phelps set several records, including Olympic records in the 100 meter butterfly, 200 meter butterfly, and 200 meter medley, as well as world records in the 400 meter medley and 4×100 meter medley. Great Britain's Olympic tug of war debut came when the nation hosted the Games in 1908. Bronze: Italy has won 242 bronze medals in the Olympics - in total 445 Italian athletes have won a bronze medal. The Olympics listed for each athlete only include games in which they won medals. Australia. The most successful Winter Olympian from Great Britain is Lizzy Yarnold, with two gold medals in the women's skeleton. Sailor Sir Ben Ainslie jointly holds the Great Britain record for most individual Olympic gold medals with Chris Hoy and Sir Mo Farah with four, and the most gold medals in a single event with three gold medals (in the Men's Finn class sailing event 2004–2012) - again shared with Jason Kenny (men's team sprint 2008–2016), Steve Redgrave (men's coxless pair 1988–1996) and Ed Clancy (men's team pursuit 2008-2016). The most successful sports Gold medalist Jason Kenny (GBR) of Britain poses with his gilfriend, women's omnium gold medalist Laura Trott (GBR) of Britain. Lizzy Yarnold is the most successful British athlete at the Winter Olympics, with two gold medals. According to official data of the International Olympic Committee. Britain took four gold medals in the first Olympic sailing events in 1900. Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny are jointly the most successful cyclists in Olympic history and Ben Ainslie, with four golds at consecutive Games and a silver medal, is the most successful sailor in Olympic history. Great Britain made its Olympic diving debut in 1908. Representatives of the devolved Northern Ireland government and others in the region, however, have objected to the name "Team GB" as discriminatory, and have called for it to be renamed as "Team UK" to make it clearer that Northern Ireland is included on the team. Sir Steve Redgrave – GB’s most decorated Olympic rower with five gold medals and a bronze medal from five successive Olympic Games. Great Britain has won an incredible 29 gold medals at London 2012, superseding the 19 taken at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Britain again dominated in 1900, taking all four gold medals and adding seven others (three as part of mixed teams). UPDATED: The British media sets itself to go into overdrive as the team surpasses 2008's top medal tally. Trott, the first British woman to win four Olympic gold medals, wept for joy at their extraordinary success in Rio. With five golds and a bronze, Redgrave is the most successful Olympic male rower of all time. There were 215 shooters from 14 nations in the shooting events, including 67 from Great Britain. Great Britain was then one of only two teams to compete in 1912 and also won the last Tug of War competition held in the Olympics in 1920. All record-holders have competed at Summer Games rather than Winter Games. Silver: Italy has won 214 silver medals in the Olympics - in total 437 Italian athletes have won a silver medal. Great Britain's only stripped medal in Olympic history was an Alpine Skiing bronze at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Currently Great Britain is the most successful nation in women's skeleton, having won a medal six times, at least one for each time the event has been held, including a gold medal for Amy Williams in 2010, and the same for Lizzy Yarnold in 2014 and 2018. Athletes have won medals in both Summer … Michael Phelps, in only his third Olympics in Beijing 2008, has smashed the record for most gold medals awarded to one Olympian by two with three races to go. It is the only national team to have won at least one Gold Medal at every Summer Games, lying third globally in the winning of total medals, surpassed only by the United States and the former Soviet Union, and fourth behind Germany when considering gold medal totals. Great Britain appeared in the first synchronised swimming competition in 1984. Great Britain won its first fencing medal, a silver, in 1908 at the London Games. Sir Chris Hoy wins a sixth Olympic gold medal to become the most successful British Olympian of all time. This list also contains the medals won in winter sports at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics. Great Britain hosted the first Olympic field hockey tournament in 1908. As the National Olympic Committee (NOC) for the United Kingdom, the British Olympic Association (BOA) membership encompasses the four Home Nations of the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales), plus the three Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey), and all but three of the British Overseas Territories (Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands have their own NOCs). Triumphant wins for the Brits set to music. ‘This is a progressive list of Olympians that have held the record for most titles won. Here is a run-down … Great Britain had one rider compete in the hacks and hunter combined event at the first Olympic equestrian events in 1900. Great Britain has competed in all Badminton events held at the Summer Olympics since badminton made its full debut as an Olympic sport in 1992. [9] However, athletes from Northern Ireland can elect to represent either the UK or Ireland at the Olympics, as people of Northern Ireland. At the Winter Olympics as a non-alpine nation Great Britain has historically been unable to replicate the amount of success they have achieved in the Summer Olympics although in recent years with the expansion of the Winter Olympics to include sports such as Curling, Snowboarding, Skeleton and Freestyle skiing has brought some increased success. They did not compete in the Olympic golf competition held in 1904. Great Britain and Ireland – now represented separately by Team Ireland and Team Great Britain – was one of three nations to play in the inaugural football tournament, winning their only match to take the first Olympic gold medal in football. Team GB is organised by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as the National Olympic Committee for the UK. It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings. With 12 medals and eight gold medals, Jenny Thompson has won more swimming medals and gold medals than any woman in Olympic history. Athletes from Ireland represented Great Britain up until the 1920 Olympics while the entire island was part of the United Kingdom. Again, Phelps leads the way with an astonishing 18 gold medals. She cried as she watched Kenny triumph in … Alberto Tomba of Italy was the first to successfully defend an Olympic alpine title, in giant slalom in 1992. John Pius Boland dominated the 1896 tennis tournaments. Phelps’ 23 gold medals, plus three silver and two bronze, came across four Olympic Games from Athens 2004 to Rio 2016. Until 2008, Great Britain's last medal for gymnastics was a Bronze in the Women's all-round team event in 1928. See also references in the articles on each athlete. Great Britain has competed in all judo events held at the Summer Olympics since judo made its full debut as an Olympic sport in 1964. Bronze: Ireland has won 12 bronze medals in the Olympics - in total 11 Irish athletes have won a bronze medal. Since the women's event was added in 2000, Great Britain has medalled in that event at every Games. Great Britain first competed in gymnastics in the inaugural 1896 Olympics, with wrestler Launceston Elliott entering the rope climbing event and finishing last. It has sent athletes to every Summer and Winter Games, along with France and Switzerland, since the start of the Olympics' modern era in 1896, including the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were boycotted by a number of other Western nations. Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen is the most decorated Winter Olympian, with … Phelps won six gold medals and two bronze medals, despite having little time to rest between events. This table includes seven medals – one gold, two silver, and four bronze – awarded in the 1908 and 1920 figure skating events. Lizzy Yarnold is the most successful Skeleton rider of all time winning back to back Gold Medals in 2014 and 2018. The cyclist Bradley Wiggins has become the most decorated British Olympian after he won gold in the men's cycling time trial. A number of Northern Irish-born athletes, particularly in boxing, have won medals for Ireland at the Games. Their best finish is a 1st and 2nd place in the men's triathlon, and 3rd-place finish in the women's triathlon, in 2016. Silver: Ireland has won 10 silver medals in the Olympics - in total 12 Irish athletes have won a silver medal. This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalists, listing people who have won four or more Olympic gold medals. Britain took a silver medal in the first Olympic rugby competition, in 1900. It has sent athletes to every Summer and Winter Games, along with France and Switzerland, since the start of the Olympics' modern era in 1896, including the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were boycotted by a number of other Western nations. She has been the most … Great Britain hosted the only Olympic rackets tournament, in 1908. [7][8], Under the IOC charter, the Olympic Council of Ireland is responsible for the entire island of Ireland. In 1952, American Andrea Mead Lawrence became the first female alpine skier to win two gold medals; Henri Oreiller of France won two golds and a bronze in 1948. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. [12] However, it has been speculated that either Manchester or Birmingham may be in the frame to host, rather than London, at least for the 2040 games. Katherine Grainger – GB’s most decorated female rower with a gold and three silvers from four successive Games. This table is sorted by individual totals gold medals. (If they were, Ray Ewry would be second on the list with 10 gold). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_gold_medalists Croatian Janica Kostelić has won the most medals of any woman, with six (four gold, two silver). The largest Swimming Team at an Olympics was in 1976 when GB took 39 different swimmers to Montreal, the smallest squad was the six participants in Athens in 1906. Tennis in 1896 was a sport that allowed mixed teams, and both Boland and George S. Robertson joined partners from other nations to win their medals. As a result, Great Britain usually does not participate in Olympic qualifying tournaments. Great Britain's Olympic modern pentathlon debut was in 1912 when it was first included in the Olympics. [2][3][4] At the 2018 Games, Izzy Atkin won Britain's first skiing medal, winning a bronze in the women's ski slopestyle. Great Britain enjoyed a period of significant success between 1976 and 1984 in figure skating, winning golds in three successive games on the rink. The most successful British Olympians by gold medals won are Sir Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny, who have won six gold (and one silver) medals each in track cycling; two British Olympians come next with five gold medals – fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins, and Sir Steve Redgrave, who won five gold medals in five consecutive Games in rowing, a record for an endurance event. In addition, British sailors were part of two mixed teams that won gold. The most decorated Olympian of all time – by some distance. Hungary has 175 while Sweden has 147. At the end of the games, teenage Phelps had become the second-best performer at an Olympic event, and the second male swimmer to win more than two titles in one Summ… Athletes from the United Kingdom, all but three of its overseas territories, and the three Crown dependencies, compete in the Olympic Games as part of the team Great Britain and Northern Ireland or Team GB. Sweden has 494 medals in total but it has less gold medals than Hungary. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. [1] Great Britain was one of 14 teams to compete in the first Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, and is one of only three nations (France and Switzerland being the others) to have competed at every Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The most decorated Winter Olympian in history is Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen. This page was last edited on 27 January 2021, at 06:50. Of his 23 golds, 13 were in individual events, with the other 10 in relays, while the 200m medley stands out as the discipline where he won gold at all … This ended the practice of "shamateurism", where players claimed to be amateur but still got irregular payments from their clubs. This is the only time that Great Britain has competed in handball at the Olympics. Great Britain have competed in all five taekwondo competitions that have taken place since 2000. They competed in the nine Olympics in the table below. China. London also won the right to host the 1944 Summer Olympics. Great Britain's first shooting medals came when the nation hosted the 1908 Games, at which the British shooters dominated the competitions. [10], Great Britain has hosted the Summer Games on three occasions – 1908, 1948 and 2012, all in London – second only to the United States. He has broken 30 world records in swimming and has tied for the most medals won (eight) at an Olympics once already at Athens four years ago. In 1908, the country finished in the Olympic table in first place for the first and only time in its history; its most successful performance both post-War and away from a home Games was in 2016, finishing second. This page lists the individuals who have won at least four gold medals at the Olympic Games or at least three gold medals in individual events. Gold Silver Bronze Total 1: Trischa Zorn United States: Swimming: 1980–2004: Summer: F: 41: 9: 5: 55: 2: Ragnhild Myklebust Norway: Biathlon, Cross-country skiing, Ice sledge racing: 1988–2002: Winter: F: 22: 3: 2: 27 3: Béatrice Hess France: Swimming: 1984–2004: Summer: F: 20: 5: 0: 25 4: Reinhild Moeller Germany: Alpine skiing, Athletics: 1980–2006: Winter, Summer: F: 19: 3: 1: 23 5: Michael Edgson Sir Steve Redgrave, long hailed Britain's greatest Olympian, has handed the honour to cyclist Bradley Wiggins, saying: "Obviously he's got more medals than me". From 1896 to 2018inclusive, Great Britain & NI has wo… Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny (both cycling), Ben Ainslie (sailing) Alistair Brownlee (Triathlon) and Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton) are the most successful Olympic competitors in their sports, as of 2018. Sir Chris Hoy became the greatest Olympian from the UK in history in London after securing a record sixth gold medal, but this was equalled by Jason Kenny at the Rio Games. The American’s standout Games was Beijing 2008, where he won a staggering eight golds, breaking Mark Spitz’s record for the most victories at a single Olympics in the process. [5][nb 1]. Alain Baxter tested positive for a banned substance, which was claimed to be as a result of Baxter using an inhaler with different chemicals in the United States. However, the 1944 games were cancelled due to WW2. Australia has 497 medals. In 1974, the FA abolished the distinction between "amateur" and "professional" footballers in England. Athletes from the United Kingdom, all but three of its overseas territories, and the three Crown dependencies, compete in the Olympic Games as part of the team Great Britain and Northern Ireland or Team GB. At the 2012 Summer Games in London, Great Britain equaled its tally for all previous games combined, winning 4 medals to bring their all-time total to eight. This list currently includes all Olympians with three or more gold medals won as individuals (not as part of a team of two or more). 8) Paavo Nurmi. In February 2019, the London mayor announced plans to bid for the 2032 or 2036 Olympics, which was backed by UK Sport. Three of the five teams had British players, and those three teams took both the top two places and split the third place with the Mexican team.