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| Top Medal Winners — Athletes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Athlete | Country | Sport | Total |
| Michael Phelps | USA | SWI | 22 |
| Larysa Latynina | URS | GYM | 18 |
| Nikolay Andrianov | URS | GYM | 15 |
| Borys Shakhlin | URS | GYM | 13 |
| Edoardo Mangiarotti | ITA | FEN | 13 |
| Takashi Ono | JPN | GYM | 13 |
| Paavo Nurmi | FIN | ATH | 12 |
| Bjørn Dæhlie | NOR | CCS | 12 |
| Birgit Fischer-Schmidt | GDR/GER | CAN | 12 |
| Sawao Kato | JPN | GYM | 12 |
| Jenny Thompson | USA | SWI | 12 |
| Dara Torres | USA | SWI | 12 |
| Aleksey Nemov | RUS | GYM | 12 |
| Natalie Coughlin | USA | SWI | 12 |
| Top Medal Winners — Countries | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
 USA |
1076 | 861 | 742 | 2679 |
 URS |
473 | 376 | 355 | 1204 |
 GER |
293 | 328 | 320 | 941 |
 GBR |
255 | 293 | 288 | 836 |
 FRA |
249 | 262 | 310 | 821 |
 ITA |
248 | 211 | 227 | 686 |
 SWE |
195 | 202 | 232 | 629 |
 GDR |
192 | 165 | 162 | 519 |
 CHN |
210 | 162 | 145 | 517 |
 RUS |
170 | 155 | 172 | 497 |
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