Athletes With Most Gold Medals in Summer Olympics
by Sameer Arshad | Posted on Friday, January 17th, 2014 | 0
The success of London Olympics couple of years ago and ow we are heading into the Sochi Winter Olympics in russia 2014, so today we decided to come up with a list of top 10 leading gold medal winners of all times. Lets take a look at the most decorated Olympians in the history of sport.
#1. Michael Phelps (18 Gold Medals)
Michael Phelps became the leading gold medal winner in the world back in 2008 olympics and he battered the record by 9 gold medals as he has 18 to his name while on 2nd place there are 4 people who have 9 each. Below is the list of top 25 gold medal winners in summer olympics.
| No.# | Athlete | Sport | Golds | Years |
| 1 |  Michael Phelps |
Swimming | 18 | 2004–12 |
| 2 |  Larisa Latynina |
Gymnastics | 9 | 1956–64 |
| 3 |  Paavo Nurmi |
Athletics | 9 | 1920–28 |
| 4 | Mark Spitz |
Swimming | 9 | 1968–72 |
| 5 | Carl Lewis |
Athletics | 9 | 1984–96 |
| 6 |  Birgit Fischer |
Canoeing | 8 | 1980–04 |
| 7 |  Sawao Kato |
Gymnastics | 8 | 1968–76 |
| 8 | Jenny Thompson |
Swimming | 8 | 1992-04 |
| 9 | Matt Biondi |
Swimming | 8 | 1984–92 |
| 10 | Ray Ewry |
Athletics | 8 | 1900–08 |
| 11 | Nikolai Andrianov |
Gymnastics | 7 | 1972–1980 |
| 12 | Boris Shakhlin |
Gymnastics | 7 | 1956–64 |
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