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Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right.

Men

No  Sport G-S-B
7 Mark Spitz, USA Swimming 7-0-0
5 Sawao Kato, JPN Gymnastics 3-2-0
4 Jerry Heidenreich, USA Swimming 2-1-1
4 Roland Matthes, E. Ger Swimming 2-1-1
4 Akinori Nakayama, JPN Gymnastics 2-1-1
4 Shigeru Kasamatsu, JPN Gymnastics 1-1-2
4 Eizo Kenmotsu, JPN Gymnastics 1-1-2
3 Valery Borsov, USSR Track/Field 2-1-0
3 Mitsuo Tsukahara, JPN Gymnastics 2-0-1
3 Steve Genter, USA Swimming 1-2-0
3 Viktor Klimenko, USSR Gymnastics 1-2-0
3 Mike Stamm, USA Swimming 1-2-0
3 Vladimir Bure, USSR Swimming 0-1-2

Women

No  Sport G-S-B
5 Shane Gould, AUS Swimming 3-1-1
5 Karin Janz, E. Ger Gymnastics 2-2-1
4 Olga Korbut, USSR Gymnastics 3-1-0
4 Lyudmila Tourischeva, USSR Gymnastics 2-1-1
4 Tamara Lazakovitch, USSR Gymnastics 1-1-2

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