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Most Gold Medals

Men

No  Sport G-S-B
8 Bjorn Daehlie, NOR Cross Country 8-4-0
5 Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, NORBiathlon5-3-1
5 Clas Thunberg, FIN Speed Skating 5-1-1
5 Eric Heiden, USA Speed Skating 5-0-0
4 Sixten Jernberg, SWE Cross Country 4-3-2
4 Ricco Gross, GERBiathlon4-3-1
4Kjetil Andre Aamodt, NORAlpine4-2-2
4 Ivar Ballangrud, NOR Speed Skating 4-2-1
4 Thomas Alsgaard, NORCross Country4-2-0
4 Gunde Svan, SWE Cross Country 4-1-1
4 Yevgeny Grishin, USSR Speed Skating 4-1-0
4 Johann Olav Koss, NOR Speed Skating 4-1-0
4 Matti Nykänen, FIN Ski Jumping 4-1-0
4 Aleksandr Tikhonov, USSR Biathlon 4-1-0
4 Nikolai Zimyatov, USSR Cross Country 4-1-0
4 Thomas Wassberg, SWE Cross Country 4-0-0
3 Veikko Hakulinen, FIN Cross Country 3-3-1
3 Eero Mäntyranta, FIN Cross Country 3-2-2
3 Vegard Ulvang, NOR Cross Country 3-2-1
3 Samppa Lajunen, FINNordic3-2-0
3 Alberto Tomba, ITA Alpine 3-2-0
3 Johan Gröttumsbråten, NOR Nordic 3-1-2
3 Bernhard Germeshausen, E. Ger Bobsled 3-1-0
3 Gillis Grafström, SWE Figure Skating 3-1-0
3 Tomas Gustafson, SWE Speed Skating 3-1-0
3 Georg Hackl, GERLuge3-2-0
3 Vladislav Tretiak, USSR Ice Hockey 3-1-0
3 Jens Weissflog, E. Ger/GER Ski Jumping 3-1-0
3Ahn Syun-Soo, KORST Sp. Skating3-0-1
3 Marc Gagnon, CANST Sp. Skating3-0-2
3 Meinhard Nehmer, E. Ger Bobsled 3-0-1
3 Hjalmar Andersen, NOR Speed Skating 3-0-0
3 Vitaly Davydov, USSR Ice Hockey 3-0-0
3 Anatoly Firsov, USSR Ice Hockey 3-0-0
3Michael Greis, GERBiathlon3-0-0
3 Thorleif Haug, NOR Cross Country 3-0-0
3 Irving Jaffee, USA Speed Skating 3-0-0
3 Andrei Khomoutov, USSR/UT Ice Hockey 3-0-0
3 Jean-Claude Killy, FRA Alpine 3-0-0
3 Viktor Kuzkin, USSR Ice Hockey 3-0-0
3 Aleksandr Ragulin, USSR Ice Hockey 3-0-0
3 Toni Sailer, AUT Alpine 3-0-0
3 Ard Schenk, NEDSpeed Skating 3-0-0
3 Ulrich Wehling, E. Ger Ski Jumping 3-0-0

Women

No  Sport G-S-B
6 Lyubov Egorova, UT/RUS Cross Country 6-3-0
6 Lydia Skoblikova, USSR Speed Skating 6-0-0
5 Larissa Lazutina, UT/RUSCross Country5-3-1
5 Claudia Pechstein, GERST Sp. Skating5-2-2
5 Bonnie Blair, USA Speed Skating 5-0-1
4 Raisa Smetanina, USSR/UT Cross Country 4-5-1
4Janica Kostelic, CROAlpine Skiing4-3-0
4 Galina Kulakova, USSR Cross Country 4-2-2
4 Lee-Kyung Chun, S. Kor.ST Sp. Skating4-0-1
3 Karin (Enke) Kania, E. Ger Speed Skating3-4-1
3 Gunda Neimann-
 Stirnemann, GER
Speed Skating3-4-1
3 Olga Danilova, RUSCross Country3-2-0
3 Anfisa Reztsova, USSR/UT CC/Biathlon 3-1-1
3 Vreni Schneider, SWI Alpine 3-1-1
3 Marja-Liisa (Hämäläinen)
 Kirvesniemi, FIN
Cross Country 3-0-4
3 Elena Valbe, UT/RUSCross Country3-0-4
3 Katja Seizinger, GER Alpine3-0-2
3 Claudia Boyarskikh, USSR Cross Country 3-0-0
3 Sonja Henie, NOR Figure Skating 3-0-0
3Jin Sun-yu, KORST Sp. Skating3-0-0
3 Irina Rodnina, USSR Figure Skating 3-0-0
3 Yvonne van Gennip, NED Speed Skating 3-0-0

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